Robot Sculptor

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

138

Date Released

19 Aug 1957

Date recorded

12 Jul 1957

Length of issue (in feet)

756

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Day Out with the Navy
2. 2Dartmoor Travelling Beautician
3. 3Robot Sculptor

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Sculpture can be a long and tiring business for the sitter, but not when this new robot sculptor invented by George McDonald Reid is used. Mr Reid’s machine, the result of a year’s intensive experiments, works on much the same principle as contour grinding machines. A series of photographs of the subject projected onto a screen controls the action of a cutting needle on a block of plaster and produces finished models which are remarkably lifelike.

Keywords

Arts and crafts; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

London; England; Marylebone

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

David De Keyser

Length of story (in feet)

259

Story extras:

Film clip

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