{"id":293,"date":"2008-03-08T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/08\/vintage-robots-part-two\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T05:22:35","slug":"vintage-robots-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/08\/vintage-robots-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Robots: Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <em>The Mechanical Man<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterpants.net\/automatons\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is a modern independent scifi film that uses a retro look &#8212; including being in black-and-white &#8212; for its robots. It&#8217;s called <strong>Automatons<\/strong> (US-2006) and was directed by James Felix McKenny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshots:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/girl02web.jpg\" title=\"Automatons1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/girl02web.jpg\" title=\"Automatons1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/girl02web.jpg\" alt=\"Automatons1\" height=\"292\" width=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/warbotmk1web.jpg\" title=\"Automaton 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/warbotmk1web.jpg\" alt=\"Automaton 2\" height=\"291\" width=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/warbotsweb.jpg\" title=\"Automaton 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/warbotsweb.jpg\" alt=\"Automaton 3\" height=\"293\" width=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The retro appeal makes this look like a SF movie to watch out for &#8212; not to mention the fact that it has Angus Scrimm (&#8220;The Tall Man&#8221; of <em>Phantasm<\/em> fame) in it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/scientistweb.jpg\" title=\"Automaton Scrimm\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/scientistweb.jpg\" alt=\"Automaton Scrimm\" height=\"297\" width=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterpants.net\/automatons\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from The Mechanical Man, here is a modern independent scifi film that uses a retro look &#8212; including being in black-and-white &#8212; for its robots. It&#8217;s called Automatons (US-2006) and was directed by James Felix McKenny. Screenshots: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/08\/vintage-robots-part-two\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}