Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

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20062006
14m

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Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon (2006)

A documentary about the making of Robby the Robot the star of the movie 'Forbidden Planet (1956)'. It is told how the robot was created. It is also told how much influence he had on later fi... Read allA documentary about the making of Robby the Robot the star of the movie 'Forbidden Planet (1956)'. It is told how the robot was created. It is also told how much influence he had on later filmmakers and also current builders of robots. You can also see his guest appearances in ot... Read allA documentary about the making of Robby the Robot the star of the movie 'Forbidden Planet (1956)'. It is told how the robot was created. It is also told how much influence he had on later filmmakers and also current builders of robots. You can also see his guest appearances in other films and series.

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This short documentary can be found on the 'Forbidden Planet 50TH Anniversary Two-disk Special Edition' DVD.

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Features Pettävä Varjo vaaroissa (1957)

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6/10

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I'm not prepared to write a real review this morning but, to follow my own rule, I'll dash one off just because nobody else has. This was fun to watch along with the other material stuck onto the Forbidden Planet's 50th Anniversary DVD but I am satisfied just seeing it once rather than owning it.

It features interviews of the guy who designed the thing for Forbidden Planet. It shows a lot of the process going into figuring out what the thing would be like in the first place. It mentions the various other films and TV shows Robby ended up in, as he was so popular (Leslie Nielsen even delivering a quote to the effect that, when he first saw Robby, he realized that ROBBY was gonna be the real star of Forbidden Planet--or was that in Watch the Skies?). It features others who worked on creating the "robot". It goes into what robots were like in other flicks. It also features a lot of interviewing of a guy who (today) makes & sells recreations of Robby replicas. Was it meant as a commercial for his biz? Was that how the documentarians got him to talk to them and provide the (admittedly interesting) robots to look at? Whatever. It was interesting seeing the original drawings and hearing the old stories in any case.

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