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Video: The Story of Robert the Robot

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  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2011-12-06 19:49
    LOL, I have always pronounced robot as "row-baht", but the narrator does offer an entirely different option...
    It is an older video, maybe I have been pronouncing it wrong this whole time...

    -Tommy
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-12-06 19:57
    Thanks, erco! I had one of those as a kid. I remember taking it apart to see what made it talk. IIRC, it was a small plastic record with a needle connected to a diaphragm "speaker."

    -Phil
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2011-12-07 07:52
    Lots of movies from the 50s use the same pronunciation for robot. Seems that by the 60s they used "row-bawt."

    You tell me: at 0:17 what does it look like the machinist said? It sure doesn't look like, "Ah, I have a neat idea!"

    -- Gordon
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,239
    edited 2011-12-07 09:10
    Reading his lips looks like he might have used the "F-word" to me.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2011-12-07 14:31
    All pronounciation & words from the 1950s are debatable. At 0:13 they call a Bridgeport mill a "remote control machine".

    Seems more like he's "right there" turning the feed cranks.

    The main interest for me was seeing Lionel Weintraub at the beginning. I worked for his son Richie for many years.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2011-12-07 16:57
    erco wrote: »
    The main interest for me was seeing Lionel Weintraub at the beginning. I worked for his son Richie for many years.

    Was this when it was still Ideal, or after their sales to other corporate masters?

    Top 10 Ideal product lines: Zeroids. Classic stuff.

    -- Gordon
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2011-12-07 17:19
    Yes, RtR was made by Ideal in their heyday. Check this timeline of the company, which got its start by making the first "Teddy" bears based on Teddy Roosevelt: http://www.luckybears.com/encyclopaedia_ideal.asp Shows Lionel Weintraub joining & becoming president.
  • hover1hover1 Posts: 1,929
    edited 2011-12-07 17:59
    OT doggiedoc Wass Sup with the new avatar? :) Some super hero or just trying to solder 0402's :)
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,239
    edited 2011-12-07 19:11
    hover1 wrote: »
    OT doggiedoc Wass Sup with the new avatar? :) Some super hero or just trying to solder 0402's :)
    Trying to outdo electromanj (inside story). :D

    [noparse][/thread_hijack][/noparse]
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