THE MECHANICAL MAN
Has anyone else seen this extraordinary 1921 Italian film, available from Alpha, with its amazing eight-foot robot? It's completely brilliant....
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By coincidence, I should be receiving this tomorrow from Netflix, so I'll report after I watch it.-------------- "Say, this is obscene!"
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Quote:Has anyone else seen this extraordinary 1921 Italian film, available from Alpha, with its amazing eight-foot robot? It's completely brilliant. I've had a copy with Italian titles for years. In...
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I was very happy with the Alpha DVD. They even added the 1922 Headless Horseman to the DVD. For 6 bucks, they added a new score. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems Alpha is giving opportunities out...
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I got the Alpha disc and watched it a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it but it's really hard to judge the film since it is missing so much footage. THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN on the other hand was horrid.
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Imho, comparing the scores between the version that Henry refers to and the Alpha DVD is a toss up. What is good about the Alpha DVD is that the story is finally translated. Worth the money paid but...
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My favourite sequence is where the robot chases a car. Good job of Alpha putting this out and the soundtracks they provided for this and the bonus film are much better than what they did on some of...
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>>>>but hardly a great restoration ala the work at Kino. Of course. The fact that Alpha is even doing this at all is great. If Kino restored the same 26 minutes it would cost at least 25...
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Does anyone know if Cryptflicks' release of the Mechanical Man is different from the Alpha release? I noticed that both are currently listed for sale at the Creepy Classics website. The Cryptflicks...
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Bumping this because I finally watched it. I loved it. I must have rerun the part where the robot rips off the girl's blouse 3 or 4 times. I wasn't sure I was seeing that!! But I saw what I saw when I...
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MYST0 wrote:Is this the first robot on film?See: http://www.btplc.com/BFI/broadband/mt25b.swfSteve
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The Automaton from the Houdini serial THE MASTERY MYSTERY (1919):
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Steve, I couldn't open that file. It takes me to some program called Prisim and they want money to open it! What was it? Scoundrel, My computer must need an upgrade as all I get is a red x for the...
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MYST0 wrote:Steve, I couldn't open that file. It takes me to some program called Prisim and they want money to open it! What was it?Mark,It takes you to a few moments of The Automatic Motorist (1911)...
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I think you can find THE AUTOMATIC MOTORIST clip here in the interactive tour on early comedy: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/archiveinteractives/index.html BTW, I went through the interactive tour on...
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Wow! It's getting exposed to rarities such as these that justifies the internet and this board! The Italian film is pretty cool and I hope it gets a major restoration at some point. The 1935 Soviet...
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opticalguy wrote:Wow! It's getting exposed to rarities such as these that justifies the internet and this board! The Italian film is pretty cool and I hope it gets a major restoration at some point....
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Here's the Russian film. There's no English translation, but you get a pretty good idea of what's going on.I love the scene at around the 58 minute mark where the guy (the inventor?) riles up the...
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Here's THE MECHANICAL MAN. It has Italian intertitles, so I just had to lose myself in the visuals; I was getting a little impatient until the robot appeared. The tinting in this version is pretty...
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