DirectorThe Birth of the Robot

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

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Leonard Charles Huia "Len" Lye (5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980), was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley.

Directed by Len Lye

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The Birth of the Robot

The Birth of the Robot

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Cameramen at War

Cameramen at War

Experimental Animation

Experimental Animation

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Rainbow Dance

Rainbow Dance

Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Trade Tattoo

Trade Tattoo

A Colour Box

A Colour Box

N or NW

N or NW

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