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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 33 Figure: Scenes of flying robots in Mechanical Monsters, 1941. This animation shows little if any controls of robotic actions or robotic perceptions/conceptions. The film does introduce (one might say anticipate) robots that can fly, like modern drone aircraft. (Acknowledgement: Company TBD.) Captain Video, Television, 1950s 33
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 34 In the 1950s, there appeared several science-fiction themed movies, as well as video programs with the advent of broadcast television, including Captain Video, Tom Corett ahd his Space Cadets, and Rocketman. All of these featured heroes with “advanced” technology, heroines or humanity in need of rescue, and dramatic technological power. The control room sets were modest. In one notable episode of Captain Video, I witnessed an actor accidentally knocking over the entire (cardboard?) rocket-ship control panel during the live television performance. He quickly and easily pushed up the fallen mechanism against the blank wall space that had been revealed by the mis-hap and uttered the magical ad-hoc line “good thing no wires were damaged, Captain!” Most of these shows featured renditions of typical cluttered airplane cockpit-controls with perhaps a dash of blinking lights added for visual impact. . 34
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