ROBOT THREE
Full length video
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Title: ROBOT THREE
Reference number: 1111
Date: 1951
Director: filmed by Enrico Cocozza
Production company: CFU [Connoisseur Film Unit]
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 12 mins
Description:
Fictional story following the lines of a Frankenstein type horror movie: A grim scientist, when two of the robots he has created fall in love, orders his third robot to destroy the "male" one. The "female" robot subsequently seduces her creator scientist into drinking from a poisoned cup, and makes her escape.....
Robot Three was awarded the Victor Saville Trophy (for most outstanding film) and the Alfred Hitchcock Cup (for best Fiction Film) at the 1952 Scottish Amateur Film Festival. Adjudicator's comment - " Impressive, bold and dramatic use of colour."
Credits:
CFU [Connoisseur Film Unit] Production
ass. d. Graeme Cullen
ph. James Craig
ass. ph. Gerard Cahill
act. Sadie Curran, Les Crawford, Victor Atkinson, Enrico Cocozza, Oscar
ed. Enrico Cocozza
lighting Henry Blakeway, John Murdoch
props William Mackay,
Shotlist: opening credits (1.51) A grim scientist orders one of his androids to destroy another, after finding out it has fallen in love with a third, "female" robot. She seduces her creator into drinking from a poisoned cup, and makes her escape... (18.33)