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    Who is the first robot in cinematic history?

    Question #30645. Asked by linniuuss. (Mar 26 03 2:30 PM)


    kerry8888

    		Couldn't pick up a name but found a reference to the supposed first robot in movies, it was in 1897.

    http://www.angelfire.com/ia/robot/robotfacts.html

    Mar 26 03, 2:43 PM
    Friar Tuck

    		The word robot has only been in English since 1923 when the Czech writer Karel Capek's play R.U.R. was translated into English and presented in London and New York.

    R.U.R., published in 1921, is an abbreviation of Rossum's Universal Robots; robot itself comes from Czech robota, 'servitude, forced labor,' from rab, slave. This means that the film has to be after that date, and the first robotic film was 'Metropolis' in 1926.

    If we accept that the question refers to robot-like machines, then Gegusse et l'Automate (The Clown and the Automaton) in 1897 was the first film.

    Mar 26 03, 5:52 PM
    linniuuss

    		'Metropolis' as the good friar said was the first film to show robots, but I want a name.

    Mar 26 03, 6:47 PM
    sequoianoir

    		Is it Maria / Futura?

    Mar 26 03, 10:58 PM
    linniuuss

    		Maria

    Mar 27 03, 3:10 PM
    serpa

    		Here is a list of several robots that pre-date Maria,

    http://www.filmsite.org/robotsinfilm1.html

    May 30 10, 8:50 PM

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