19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack

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• technothrasher 15 minutes ago
  Well, to be pedantic, if it's 19th century it would have to be an automaton. The word robot wasn't coined until 1923.
• alephnerd 1 hour ago
  Oh boy, this takes me down memory lane.

  George Meliese's silent films and automatons were at the core of the beautifully illustrated and written YA novel from the mid-2000s named The Invention of Hugo Cabret [0].

  [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Hugo_Cabret
• damnitbuilds 5 hours ago
  "[...] attacks a human clown with a stick."

  Why does NPR call Gugusse "a human clown" ? He is not wearing clown clothes.

  Gugusse looks more to me like the "mad inventor" of the robot, with a comedic bald head.

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  • pigeons 1 hour ago
    the llm editing the llm writing it missed it?
  • IAmBroom 1 hour ago
    Agreed 100%. That's a mad scientist. I'll bet the coat with exaggerated tails was comically out of fashion as well.