Excellent robot content from Dave Lester. Ah, but was it trained to smash your camera?
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Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
"How can we be anything but kind?"
8 responses so far ↓
1 Dave Lester // Mar 21, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Here’s an excerpt from the 1939 movie “The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair” featuring footage of Elektro.
2 mgrasso // Mar 21, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“We got more gongs than the breakdancing robot that caught on fire.”
3 Foxtown // Mar 21, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Seems interesting, but I can’t read it. Maybe I will try when I get home…
4 Rob // Mar 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Mike: Great minds! I was trying to work that in but went for the (more? less?) obscure Jimmy Olsen camera reference instead.
5 Madrad // May 6, 2008 at 8:10 pm
See an account of my visit to Elektro at
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2007/02/robot-redux.html
6 Rob // May 6, 2008 at 9:05 pm
That’s a terrific post, David. I’ve forwarded it to a mailing list of robot enthusiasts. And Elektro starred in Sex Kittens Go To College with Tuesday Weld and Conway Twitty! ZOMG, as the kids say.
7 Madrad // May 7, 2008 at 3:11 am
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2006/06/all-things-elektro.html
8 Madrad // May 7, 2008 at 3:13 am
Oops. Hit “submit” too fast on that last post. Here’s another post on the blog that includes a picture of Elektro on display at the Mansfield Museum.
http://davecory2.blogspot.com/2006/06/all-things-elektro.html