Of (Giant) Robots and Super Sentai
By: Charz
Tags: André Deed, Avant-garde, Cretinetti, Diabolical Women, Futurism, Henshin, Ignazio Scurto, Italy, Karel Capek, L'uomo meccanico, Mado, Marinetti, Mechanical Temple, Metalizatorium, Modestino D’Ara, Remote Control, Robot, Super Sentai, Terminator, The Mechanical Man, Tokusatsu, Transformation
Category: Codex, Japan, Super Sentai
Fighto ! ~ L’uomo meccanico (The Mechanical Man) by André Deed, 1921
The Mechanical Man (1921)
According to that synopsis, a brilliant scientist invents a huge, remote-controlled mechanical man, possessed of tremendous strength and speed, and equipped with powerful electrical generators in its hands. Unfortunately for the scientist, his creation comes to the attention of a masked female arch-criminal named Mado, who with the help of her gang kills the inventor in a bid to steal the plans for the automaton for use in her upcoming reign of terror. (1000misspenthours)
Big Screens and Remote Control
L’uomo meccanico is a science fiction film where artificially created life in the form of a robot menaces soceity. At a grand ball, the evil robot captures a girl. The only answer to the superhuman strength of the robot is to attack him by a robot fighting on the side of good. The climatic fight beteen good and evil would have little originality had not the robots been operated from remote control rooms, where the turn of events can be followed on big screens. This evokes the use of video as a form of extended vision performing and monitoring operations in inaccessible spaces. The video serves as a vision no longer bound by the physical limits of the body.
John Fullerton, Jan Olsson, Allegories of communication: intermedial concerns from cinema to the digital, 2004, p111-112
Champagne !
Ignazio Scurto’s Henshin !
Infine il corpo del MACCHINANTROPO scorrendo su di un piano inclinato andrà ad immergersi in un crogiuolo di metallo ardente dentro il quale la materia inutile si dissolverà in pochi istanti, mentre l’essenza metallica dello scomparso verrà catalizzata nel nuovo metallo. A questo punto il METALARMONIO SONORIZZEA con un urlo massimi il culmine della cerimonia di fusione spegnendosi poi lentamente fino al silenzio.
Willard Bohn, The other futurism: futurist activity in Venice, Padua and Verona, 2004, p 123
L’uomo meccanico Clips
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