Watch “The Beginning of the Robotic,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Cease-Movement Animation

Robots appear to have been a lot on the pub­lic thoughts again within the 9­teen-thir­ties. Matt Novak at Pale­o­fu­ture offers the examination­ple of a second in 1932 when “the world was awash in information­pa­per sto­ries a couple of robotic that had carried out the unthink­ready: a mechan­i­cal man had shot its inven­tor.” Regardless of being…