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- From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
- Subject: Re: BTAS 11/16: Heart of Steel
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- In article <1992Nov18.215119.13850@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> mae@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Mary Anne Espenshade) writes:
- >want to mention that nobody has pointed out yet was the appearance of
- >the one type of the robot skeleton, the one that first appeared as the
- >trash can following Barbara. It's a design out of a Fleisher Superman
- >cartoon, more recently used repeatedly by Miyazaki in a Lupin episode
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- By the way, the bit of business with the ashcan rolling around and then
- backing up to the wall to look inconspicuous seemed to me to have
- been lifted from a neat little Australian film named `Malcolm', in
- which some robbers `disguised' as bank ashtrays behave in much
- the same way.
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- I concur that the robot design was inspired by the Superman
- `Mechanical Men' cartoon. I have sometimes thought that Fox should
- run a Fleischer Superman cartoon as a short subject before a Batman
- episode...
- Mike Urban
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