Want to watch 'The Birth of the Robot' in the comfort of your own home? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Len Lye-directed movie via subscription can be a huge pain, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.
Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Birth of the Robot' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Birth of the Robot' right now, here are some particulars about the animation flick.
Released , 'The Birth of the Robot' stars The movie has a runtime of about 6 min, and received a user score of 68 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 11 experienced users.
Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive" .
