Watch The Birth of the Robot (1936) Online

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 Read More

Watch The Birth of the Robot online. Featuring , The Birth of the Robot is classified as Animation genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.1. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was released on 1936. The Birth of the Robot was directed by Humphrey Jennings,Len Lye. Read Less