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The Birth of the Robot
The Birth of the Robot
6.6
/10
379 Ratings

THE BIRTH OF THE ROBOT

Directed by Len Lye
United Kingdom, 1936
Animation, Short, Fantasy

Synopsis

The Birth of a Robot is a bizarre, fantastical advertisement for Shell Oil in which surrealist stop-motion figurines act out a disjointed myth of how robots came to be, and in which Shell Oil keeps the world turning after a sleepy god retired from the wheel.

Synopsis

The Birth of a Robot is a bizarre, fantastical advertisement for Shell Oil in which surrealist stop-motion figurines act out a disjointed myth of how robots came to be, and in which Shell Oil keeps the world turning after a sleepy god retired from the wheel.