Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

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Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

6.3 | NR | en | Documentary

A short documentary about Robby the Robot.

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Released: November. 14,2006 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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A short documentary about Robby the Robot.

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Cast

Joe Dante , Ben Burtt , Earl Holliman

Director

Carl Jordan

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Cast

Joe Dante

as Self

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies In Search of Darkness: Part II Tales of the Uncanny Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film In Search of Darkness Class of '79: 40 Years of Rock 'N' Roll High School Mark of The Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf

Ben Burtt

as Self

Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound Wings: Grandeur in the Sky WALL·E BURN·E Fog City Mavericks Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

Earl Holliman

as Self

Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon Night Man P.S. I Luv U Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge Sharky's Machine Trapped Police Woman The Biscuit Eater

Reviews

zimbo_the_donkey_boy I'm not prepared to write a real review this morning but, to follow my own rule, I'll dash one off just because nobody else has. This was fun to watch along with the other material stuck onto the Forbidden Planet's 50th Anniversary DVD but I am satisfied just seeing it once rather than owning it.It features interviews of the guy who designed the thing for Forbidden Planet. It shows a lot of the process going into figuring out what the thing would be like in the first place. It mentions the various other films and TV shows Robby ended up in, as he was so popular (Leslie Nielsen even delivering a quote to the effect that, when he first saw Robby, he realized that ROBBY was gonna be the real star of Forbidden Planet--or was that in Watch the Skies?). It features others who worked on creating the "robot". It goes into what robots were like in other flicks. It also features a lot of interviewing of a guy who (today) makes & sells recreations of Robby replicas. Was it meant as a commercial for his biz? Was that how the documentarians got him to talk to them and provide the (admittedly interesting) robots to look at? Whatever. It was interesting seeing the original drawings and hearing the old stories in any case.