1910 – Das Moto-Baby – (German)
Image Source: circusmuseum.nl Any further information on "Moto-Baby" most welcomed. See the full list of Fake and Pseudo Automatons and Robots here.
Category: Pseudo Automatons and Robots
1925c – “Rose-Marie” the Robot with Will Mackford – (Belgian)
"Rose-Marie" the Robot with Will Mackford. The notes on the photographs are bilingual Flemish/French. [Thanks Serge De Man for the language origin.] Photo source here: Although William Mackford is an English name, the annotated images suggest the act to be Belgian-based. [Thanks Serge De Man for the language origin.] Any further information on "Rose-Marie" and/or …
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1910 – Moto Phoso – Man or Automaton? – (German)
Above image Source: circusmuseum.nl Popular Electricity and the World's Advance – Volume 4 – Page 226 by Henry Walter Young – 1911 . This entrancing point was recently reached at Hamburg, where a vaudeville theater billed as its special attraction : "Moto Phoso-Man or Automaton ?" When the curtain rose for this turn it disclosed a figure …
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1912 РMoto-Ph̩no РWilli Schoenen and Friedrich Hirsch (German)
Moto-Phéno die lebende Puppe: Vornehmste, interessanteste Schau der Gegenwart. Auch für Familien. Willi Schoenen gen: Moto-Phéno. Friedrich Hirsch, Impresario. Moto-Phéno, der einzige Mensch, der durch unbeugsame Willenskraft sich selbst hypnotisiert und in der Hypnose eine Puppe imitiert. Google English translation: Moto–PHENO the living doll: noblest, most interesting sight of the present. Also for families. Willi …
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1971 – “COSME” – Le Chevalier de L’Espace – Jeanne Renucci-Convers (French)
Cosme, le chevalier de lumière… est le dernier né et le géant des automates. Nous voilà bien loin des premières poupées articulées. Cosme n'est pas seulement colossal (5 m. de haut, 1.350 kg), il a de l'ambition et veut synthétiser en lui l'humanité présente et future dans le contexte technique qui est le nôtre. Animé …
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