Robots in Ragtime (Sep, 1951)
Filed under: Robots, Toys and Games — @ 5:22 pm
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1951
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1951
Buy on Ebay
Robots in Ragtime
THE Japanese have come up with something new in toys. It’s a mechanical orchestra and its tinny music has captured the hearts of the youngsters.Jiro Aizawa, an ex-Kamikaze plane designer, is the creator. Loath to discard his mechanical training after the war, he turned to experimentation with robots, a subject in which he had long been interested. His results are quite amazing.
The orchestra’s actual music is produced by a phonograph record synchronized with the movements of the players. In its repertoire are: Buttons and Bows, Beer Barrel Polka and Rumba Tamba.
Oh.
Ex-Kamakazi plane designer as opposed to Ex-Kamakazi plane operator.
Big difference.
Comment by jayessell — September 4, 2006 @ 7:30 am
C’mon, he’s breathing second-hand smoke from that robot so he’s ’sorta’ committing suicide…
Still at it years later:
(This is a transcript of an AP newsreel)
Japan: Tokyo - 25 February 1964
(Life Size Robot goes to Market)
[a0003441]
Robot, inventor Jiro Aizawa and assistant
Aizawa
Hand inside robot
Robot, Aizawa and asst with controls
Robot pushing baby carriage down street
Robot’s head
Movement of feet, tilt up to robot’s face
Robot and carriage outside store
Robot with shop asst
Robot blinks eyes
Assistant fills shopping basket of robot
AA same
Robot amidst crowd of children
AA same
Robot moves thru children, asst in foreground
Assistant with controls
Controls
Robot, pan to smiling children
Comment by Stannous — September 4, 2006 @ 8:55 am