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Jim Henson's Robot

by ccManager
Commentary summary:
Human-machine tensions are highlighted in this short several years before Sesame Street
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A short film created by Jim Henson for a for a Bell Data Communications Seminar in Chicago in 1963 depicts a stereotypical antagonism between humans and the fantasy of mechanical intelligence projected onto the figure of a robot. The short was rediscovered and made available online by AT&T in January 2012.

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Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ccManager. (2012, January 27). Jim Henson\'s Robot. Retrieved May 17, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/commentaries/jim-hensons-robot. This work is licensed under a No Copyright; No Rights Reserved.