More fun from LIFE magazine:

http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/25341/robots-we-like-robots-we-fear

You know, just below this one is "The Mini Skirt: Then and Now." Where are your priorities, man!!?!!

You know, just below this one is "The Mini Skirt: Then and Now." Where are your priorities, man!!?!!

Hmmm, missed that one!

#21 is being called "Richard's Robot"? Surely that's from a production of RUR.

#24 is a skirtchaser. It went after my mom (who fled in terror) when it made an appearance at a local Fred Meyers store, the same week it was on an episode of Logan's Run.

Where is John? How*could they have missed John?!?

he's more of a software entity.

http://www.inpayne.com/film/idiots2.jpg

Sci-Fi has warned us about the possible dangers of robots and apes, but humans still wanting them as helpers. "WARNING! WARNING!"

Not THAT John...JOHN from "Voyage to a prehistoric Planet"

Not THAT John...JOHN from "Voyage to a prehistoric Planet"I just LOVE that big Russian lunkhead. Maybe not as articulate as Robby or B-9, but STRONG LIKE BULL!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2974964165_fbebfa92c1.jpg?v=0

Actually this looks pretty good. Might be worth a netflixing.

Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet!


OK that's just a preview. Forget netflix; it's in the public domain.

Full Feature Film! (http://www.archive.org/details/VoyagetothePrehistoricPlanet)

Great Movie!
(http://www.archive.org/details/VoyagetothePrehistoricPlanet)
OK the spliced in parts with Faith Domergue and Basil Rathbone made me want to cry, along with the putsy 60's gee whiz dialogue that was dubbed in.

The beginning scenes with some sort of orbiting platform for building spaceships are amazing (think they must have edited a lot out). The spaceships themselves were better than anything in Western SF. Even the space suits were well done, Like something Giger might have designed. The flying car is way cool, right out of the Jetsons. The characters looked real if a bit Lenin-proletariat-hero like. Just turn down the sound and imagine what it must've been like.

Oh and John is in need of a good pedicure. I don't think they subscribed to Azimov's Rules of Robotics either.

The original Soviet film, Планета бурь Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms) is on YouTube. Unfortunately, the video quality is poor and it's in Russian with no subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdfArbpMG9I

Too bad about the quality. It makes more sense in Russian than it does in English though!

Planeta Burg has also been available on video with English subtitles, on VHS if not DVD. I believe Sinister Cinema had it (but I wouldnt swear to it). At any rate, I have rented it from the library here.

EDIT: Yes, Sinsiter Cinema has it on DVD at their website. http://store.sinistercinema.com/prostores/servlet/Search

What ever happened to that JOHN robot suit? Still in a studio backlot in the Ukrane or used as Automobile parts on those wonderful Russian cars?

Part 2 of the youtube stream has a wonderful scene where they wake-up John: Hellooooooo John!

Wasn't in the Corman edit. Spooky.

I just skimmed the parts and didn't see the footage from the beginning of the Corman flick. Seems like he spliced something else in there.

I like the Russian Marsha too. Strong like bull!

Why are Daleks on the list.
They are not robots.

Because some people don't know the difference between a Cyborg and an Automotan?

Because some people don't know the difference between a Cyborg and an Automotan?
But a Dalek is neither, there is a creature driving the thing.

OK, I guess I'm not as up on my Doctor Who lore as I thought, as I was under the impression that the Dalek's were plugged in to their machines and didn't have to push buttons for everything. Is that not the case, then? If it is the case, then they meet the definition of a cyborg. If it's not, then I admit that I was wrong in my presumption that they're cyborgs.

A Dalek is a "travel machine" controlled by a being from the Kaled race, mutated by Davros into a formless blob of a head and tentacles, and absolutely no "weak" emotions like love, or compassion. The mutant can see and hear thru the machines' sensors, can control the machines' movements, and can utilize the vacuum gripper and ray weapon arms, all thru controls in the "cockpit" in the heart of the machine. It is fed and it's wastes are removed by the machine, and it can survive in space in the machine. The mutant "wears" the travel machine like we would wear a space suit.

Larry

Robots we like, robots we fear . . . What about robots that make us laugh out loud?

http://www.rocketmania.com/robot_news.jpg

Robots we like, robots we fear . . . What about robots that make us laugh out loud?

Yes. 1940s robots are comical. Especially when they show up in 1970s sci-fi movies.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/0starshipin.jpg

Yes. 1940s robots are comical. Especially when they show up in 1970s sci-fi movies.

... along with 1970s Penthouse Pets and their derrieres.:p

http://www.golobthehumanoid.com/sinvs10.jpg

Christopher Lee is not happy in that picture.

Christopher Lee is not happy in that picture.


Well, the Gumby suit is rather undignified.

Christopher Lee is probably even more unhappy NOW for ever putting that body suit on in the first place! LMAO!!

Nice bunnsies though......(ON THE GIRL!!!)

That is hilarious! It looks straight out of a kids TV show. And what is that on his chest? A space dragon?
1977. Hmmm. I think Star Wars might have them beat.

You'd think the movie is high camp from the costumes, yet it's trying to be high drama.

Trivia question, do you guys know how this movie ties in to the "What are you watching for Halloween" thread?

Score by Gil Melle - this too excerpts of one of the themes from The Night Stalker!

curse you, Zoro. I have no sound at work.

Canadian Bacon

Here's a summary and review. (http://www.canuxploitation.com/review/starship.html) Looks goooood.