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  • Опубліковано 10 гру 2024
  • In 1897, a widow returns to the family farm where she discovers her late husband's attempt at building a sentient machine.
    The Automaton by Alex Reeves
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 658

  • @brianjay9811
    @brianjay9811 3 роки тому +36

    This is a beautifully tragic story, and the young actress did a great job. I admire the creativity in placing a robot of wood, gears, and steam in an old west setting. The reaction from the neighbor was believable for that time and I'm glad they spared showing us the destruction of the machine, because I have no doubt that would have been the next step...

  • @charlespeter6268
    @charlespeter6268 4 роки тому +240

    If you ever find something amazing that makes you happy don't tell anyone they will take it away

    • @MdVaDc
      @MdVaDc 4 роки тому +8

      Exactly

    • @dustbunnieboo
      @dustbunnieboo 4 роки тому +23

      And get curtains for the windows.

    • @SierraHarmony
      @SierraHarmony 4 роки тому +9

      For his own good, I wish I never told my partner he was my everything. He passed away and I've never met anyone close to him.

    • @bluef1sh926
      @bluef1sh926 4 роки тому +5

      Or get a gun and shoot everyone who steps into your yard uninvited.

    • @jonathansinger3818
      @jonathansinger3818 4 роки тому +6

      Or put a tax on it....

  • @cthulhufhtagn2483
    @cthulhufhtagn2483 4 роки тому +205

    I love how the robot talks! Somebody put real thought into how something that could only communicate through wax cylinders would speak.

    • @pogodanaprzygode
      @pogodanaprzygode 4 роки тому +4

      like a BumbleBee from Transformers :)

    • @zenokarlsbach4292
      @zenokarlsbach4292 4 роки тому

      Sophia avant la lettre ...

    • @onidaaitsubasa4177
      @onidaaitsubasa4177 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah, it was great, the only other way an automaton of that time could've talked would be with small bellows that blow through a woodwind type larynx to a complex moving system with watch like complexity that works like a mouth, lips, and tongue to form voice and words, and since the science of mechanical television was made one year prior it might even be possible to have a type of vision system, and apparently the automaton had type of brain possibly something to do with the green liquid and the way water and perhaps other liquids has been shown to have memory, perhaps that's why a drop falls when the robot seems to learn things, and if that's the case, then the creators of the film went all out and even worked out how the automaton's brain would work, and that makes the film even more impressive.

    • @willarcher2356
      @willarcher2356 3 роки тому +2

      Welp, there goes 21:48 minutes of my life gone forever.

    • @joshhayl7459
      @joshhayl7459 3 роки тому +2

      🔵 I hope they got a-LOT of wax cylinders on hand, those cylinders only record 2-minutes a-piece!

  • @scottcupp8129
    @scottcupp8129 2 роки тому +9

    I love the way this was made. The Automaton is amazing. I love the way they incorporated wax cylinders as a form of the machine's communication. So neat.

  • @Ramipon
    @Ramipon 4 роки тому +79

    This is the case where I WANT the machine to go on a roaring rampage of revenge...

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 3 роки тому +1

      perhaps it did ??

    • @BradfordGuy
      @BradfordGuy 3 роки тому +1

      I was thinking the same thing. Remember the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz? His song, "If I Only Had A Heart? Changing the words up for the Automaton to say "If I Only Had Two Legs," or, "If I Only Had A Gun!" Then he could exact his revenge.

    • @ShadowsOfEssence
      @ShadowsOfEssence 3 роки тому +3

      The true beginning of Skynet

  • @FlappyBandAid
    @FlappyBandAid 4 роки тому +63

    The other consideration is, she was already insane from the death of her husband, and we are taken on a journey through her dementia. Meaning the automaton never really existed in the capacity we see it - maybe her inventive husband was toying with the idea and shared it with her before he died. Therefore the envisioning of Auto was how she dealt with it. Notice upon seeing the electrode-shock machine, she is pleased and seems to have associated it with “Auto” in her mania.
    Either way, I was well invested in the story, visuals, and acting.

    • @jordel2010
      @jordel2010 4 роки тому +3

      Interesting interpretation. Perhaps it could have been corroborated with just a bit more exposition, but the creators of this short film most likely decided on leaving it very open to interpretation.

    • @SierraThunder
      @SierraThunder 4 роки тому +9

      I actually believe that it may have been a case of "post partum depression", known better as melancholia in the 1800's, this was a mental illness quite common back in the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries and still happens today. Back then it was caused by losing a child, as a good many children didn't live to see their first birthday. It's also caused by a hormonal imbalance following child birth & has been the cause of a number of tragedies, both accidental & intentional.
      It was also one of the reasons that people back then had such large families. So I don't think her melancholia was due to her husband's death, think about the scene where she was putting some of her late husband's belongings in the empty nursery room with the crib & other baby items in it.

    • @lizzyp70
      @lizzyp70 4 роки тому +7

      My thoughts exactly. Why even include the mother character at all? I love that it’s meant for us to interpret. Personally, I think the mother’s mental state coincides with her daughters’ delusions. Just my opinion, but there are many other possibilities. That is the mark of a brilliant film!

    • @jaybingham3711
      @jaybingham3711 3 роки тому +1

      @@lizzyp70 Mother was necessary to impart issues of existing familial mental issues. This dynamic changes the entire tenor of the goings-on.

    • @ShadowsOfEssence
      @ShadowsOfEssence 3 роки тому +1

      I was think along these lines as she obviously couldn't have kids and basically turned Auto into her child.

  • @hijederayo4921
    @hijederayo4921 4 роки тому +214

    I thought it was an interesting inversion of the usually AI tropes, that the AI was a source of happiness and healing from the beginning. Its possible that the late husband built this machine as a way to reach out to his wife in ways after life that he couldnt do during it.

    • @watchdust
      @watchdust  4 роки тому +22

      That's a great observation, thank you for watching!

    • @tangz42
      @tangz42 4 роки тому +3

      That's what I was thinking too!!

    • @aqciningjavillo5324
      @aqciningjavillo5324 4 роки тому

      yeah thought so

    • @shingshing01
      @shingshing01 4 роки тому +1

      We need more positive visions of the future. Or, in this case the past.

    • @ericrose3877
      @ericrose3877 3 роки тому

      @@shingshing01 DUHHHH, to all of you. Otto should have saved them from the evil witch, the false 'Pastor' and his 'nice men'.....

  • @xccxvindaloo
    @xccxvindaloo 4 роки тому +33

    “What we don’t understand, we fear and destroy” something that was said to me in my younger years. I see more and more in today’s society, can we be saved, I am not sure, but hope is eternal so maybe we can.🤔

    • @Deebz270
      @Deebz270 3 роки тому +1

      Wise words and redolant of all that has tranpired over the past 10,000 years, but even more so over the past ten decades.
      Hope may appear eternal and to keep one going when things get tough, but like faith, is usually vacuuous in the realm of reality.
      The reality on this beleaguered planet is such that it is highly unlikely that many species, including our own will survive into the next century.
      And this reality is predicated on *facts.*

    • @babydriver8134
      @babydriver8134 3 роки тому +3

      Receive Jesus or not, your choice.

  • @conrad13579
    @conrad13579 3 роки тому +4

    Amazing Story re-watching this after a year. Is anyone else totally disgusted with the Pastor and the Churchs' Backward, Uncaring Nosy Hypocrisy in this epic emotional short movie? Great Throwback of an era. Excellent letting us 'Remember' the Geniuses that died of whom we necer got a chance to meet.

  • @chadstinson9886
    @chadstinson9886 2 роки тому +1

    This is why freedom to bare arms is so important.

  • @1GUNSQUIRREL
    @1GUNSQUIRREL 4 роки тому +62

    the busybody was an 1897 KAREN

  • @guesswho5370
    @guesswho5370 4 роки тому +164

    Classic case of minding someone else’s business

    • @touofthehighplains
      @touofthehighplains 4 роки тому +11

      This is exactly what will be happening with these red flag laws.

    • @RadioForYahweh
      @RadioForYahweh 4 роки тому +12

      The first Susan to call the cops

    • @imrighthere5878
      @imrighthere5878 4 роки тому +8

      But but, they were concerned, and it's for your own good

    • @dickiedollop
      @dickiedollop 4 роки тому +6

      don’t you just love a busybody - the nosy old bag !

  • @speckledperch4158
    @speckledperch4158 4 роки тому +82

    They had no right to give her frontal lobe therapy. She was already happy.

    • @WardNightstone
      @WardNightstone 4 роки тому +20

      it was 1897 at that time anythign fun enjoyable or pleasurable was thought of as evil and bad (except drugs)

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger 4 роки тому +7

      @@WardNightstone Plenty of societies and cultures in 1897 were able to enjoy themselves; look at music halls (which were even for poor people too). The lower classes did what they enjoyed depending upon their means, and even straitlaced Victorian upper classes got up to all sorts behind closed doors. Religious extremists held more sway in the U.S. at that time sure, but it's highly unlikely that a widow would be committed for showing a pastor a machine like that - this is fiction after all.

    • @JDLeonard74
      @JDLeonard74 4 роки тому +4

      Re-education camps never really go away.

    • @kevinlane1219
      @kevinlane1219 4 роки тому

      Htx457 By “18th century”, do you mean the 1700s?

    • @lancerobinson8364
      @lancerobinson8364 4 роки тому +4

      Anyone who administered that sort of 'therapy' should get a taste of it themselves.

  • @tietjen666
    @tietjen666 4 роки тому +16

    Great to see this! (again!) Thank you DUST: Providing sanity during the pandemic. And always!

  • @marymagmartha7453
    @marymagmartha7453 4 роки тому +74

    _The “omnipotent moral busybodies” have been around for a long time_

  • @mimiwilson3810
    @mimiwilson3810 4 роки тому +42

    “slumped over like a sack of dried corn”. 😂

  • @derasor
    @derasor 4 роки тому +23

    Finally, sci-fi where the AI, human roles are actually accurate.

  • @MezziK
    @MezziK 4 роки тому +1

    Basically she found more comfort in the machine than in people. Really shows how we need to be better as people.

  • @rogercraven2667
    @rogercraven2667 4 роки тому +7

    This one was well-rounded. I was surprised at the originality of this project. Keep up the good work.
    It looks like my future really is Dust.

  • @starrgamer13
    @starrgamer13 4 роки тому +9

    This was so good. Not sure what writer came up with this concept of an 1897 version of AI but this beautiful!!! Tragic at the end, but still a beautifully written story!!!

  • @spacecowboy2010
    @spacecowboy2010 4 роки тому +49

    The early conversations sounded like every time I talk to Alexa...

    • @Flashjan1
      @Flashjan1 4 роки тому +3

      You shouldn't talk to people like Alexa, she can't be trusted.

    • @pauls5745
      @pauls5745 4 роки тому

      @@Flashjan1 yeah,, Alexa uploads to the cloud and everything is evaluated like most common questions asked, but who knows if there is a personally identifiable database of information built up. the tech is there... haha

  • @theducksanctuary951
    @theducksanctuary951 4 роки тому +5

    Should’ve had some curtains or something on the windows to keep out nosy neighbors. she could’ve at least smeared black paint on the windows. Damn. I hope there’s a second to this, it was amazing and sad at the same time.

    • @Natasha___.
      @Natasha___. 3 роки тому +3

      The lady who played the nosey old witch was a really good actress!
      I've never wanted to reach through a screen and slap someone so much in my life, I was legitimately angry when she barged in with the pastor. 😄

  • @secondchantz
    @secondchantz 4 роки тому +2

    This film puts Hollywood to shame. Brilliant. Everything about it.

  • @SamanthaYoung
    @SamanthaYoung 4 роки тому +214

    So the “pastor” is responsible for having a widow electro shocked for being happy. He is no more a pastor than many so called pastors around today.

    • @1TalldrinkH2O
      @1TalldrinkH2O 4 роки тому +24

      The bible says, "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness." James 3:1
      Because leaders should, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves." Philippians 2:3
      Blessings!

    • @KrustyKlown
      @KrustyKlown 4 роки тому +32

      Pastors have become symbols of horror & abuse ... just as Clowns did a few decades ago. Perceptions change once the truth is revealed and acknowledged .. men preying on the feeble minded and young, while hiding behind a facade of "Good".

    • @Catbytes
      @Catbytes 4 роки тому +9

      @@1TalldrinkH2O funny, i just read James 3 today. And i was thinking much the same as i watched the video.

    • @Catbytes
      @Catbytes 4 роки тому +14

      It doesn't help that the people that write for such characters usually have no relationship with God themselves, therefore lack of discernment in their character's actions.

    • @1TalldrinkH2O
      @1TalldrinkH2O 4 роки тому +2

      @@KrustyKlown True !

  • @kampilandelacruz4925
    @kampilandelacruz4925 4 роки тому +25

    I remembered a genius man that people think he's crazy because they don't understand the advance way he think.

    • @SkyRied1
      @SkyRied1 4 роки тому +1

      Who is he?

    • @MalhaIIa
      @MalhaIIa 4 роки тому +1

      this could be a lot of people, but naturally a certain austrian painter comes to mind

    • @pogodanaprzygode
      @pogodanaprzygode 4 роки тому

      @@SkyRied1 Nicolaus Copernicus for example

  • @prachuap2164
    @prachuap2164 2 роки тому

    It's rare to find a treasure like this on this channel.
    An exceptionally good story, not actually sci-fi. The film describes reality as it is up until today. Nothing has changed.

  • @lloydrobert6182
    @lloydrobert6182 4 роки тому +3

    This was so strangely discomfiting (for its content), but truly satisfying for its treatment. Will see it again just to understand the genius of its makers.

  • @aric5011
    @aric5011 3 роки тому +1

    Timeless. The same story can still happen today.

  • @shgstewart4674
    @shgstewart4674 4 роки тому +1

    Astonishing use of props and costumes, set and setting in this one.

  • @barnaclejim3119
    @barnaclejim3119 4 роки тому +6

    man this channel is the best

  • @Natasha___.
    @Natasha___. 3 роки тому +3

    This one was so thought provoking and different, I absolutely loved everything about it!

  • @kazimrahman7499
    @kazimrahman7499 4 роки тому +3

    WoW.....Dust Never know...everytime when I feel low by hard work.....their short films wake me up to go for Another round of hard work...thanks DUST....for nice Plots and hard work...!!

  • @debraj.thomas661
    @debraj.thomas661 4 роки тому +1

    Great tragedy. Love lost, entrapment, freedom of being close to her husband through a machine, great story line. Even the shock therapy was embraced! Great twist at the end!

  • @jaspersilence9328
    @jaspersilence9328 3 роки тому +1

    Wow that was dark af!!! I loved it!!!

  • @dontaylor7315
    @dontaylor7315 Рік тому

    I must have saved this when it was newly uploaded, because when I came across it again today enough time had elapsed that I didn't remember it and when I played it again it only came back to me very gradually. The tragic end left me wishing Margaret had answered differently when the church people questioned her: Maybe things might have gone better if she'd just said "We're listening to an improved gramophone my husband built."

  • @barrahart
    @barrahart 2 роки тому

    A masterful commentary on the ignorance, fear and tyranny to which we, as primarily social and emotional apes, all too vulnerable.

  • @wayneg2139
    @wayneg2139 4 роки тому +1

    Very well done short. Very well written and acted. Lots to think about in this one. This would make a very COOL movie!!! Think about it. The Automaton uses his one arm and manages to remake himself to look human, and heads off to rescue his widow/master.

  • @elizabethgaspodnetich4322
    @elizabethgaspodnetich4322 4 роки тому +5

    Well, that turned out to be more true than fiction. Sad in a weird way. I liked it!! I love these weird little twisted tales, keep 'em coming!

  • @Mad_Moxx
    @Mad_Moxx 2 роки тому +1

    Man that is some beautiful color grading and lighting!

  • @billmurray7473
    @billmurray7473 4 роки тому +3

    The ending is what I thought it
    might be, given the time period
    the story is set in.

  • @katim2644
    @katim2644 4 роки тому +2

    One word: Excellent! Sets, acting, production value, wardrobe, story, themes.......WOW! (I guess that's two words.)

  • @reloads223
    @reloads223 4 роки тому +23

    WOW never saw this before , great acting and special effects

  • @tinyGrim1
    @tinyGrim1 4 роки тому

    This is quite profound. So many people are judged, or taken away what truely works for them and allows them some happiness, and peace and a will to be so, and go on. Too many think they know what's good for the soul even in today's world, and still, punitively so. I know.

  • @Philamosity
    @Philamosity 4 роки тому +2

    I had to replay it because her eyes kept taking my attention away from the words she was saying lol. Seriously though, her eyes are amazing!

  • @CraigMacdonaldAeon
    @CraigMacdonaldAeon 3 роки тому +1

    Multiply each character by 20 million and you've got America 2021.

  • @worldwar2lucky961
    @worldwar2lucky961 4 роки тому +1

    I talk to animals and they communicate back in their own way .I would have been put away for that. You ever had a pigeon guilt trip you, or deliberately give you the cold shoulder like a tired old coot because you'll wake up the babies. ITS THE BEST 😁😁😁😁😁

  • @AnthonyMiyazaki
    @AnthonyMiyazaki 4 роки тому +3

    Brutal. But times, they have not changed. // Brilliant filmmaking.

  • @AvCAnothervapeChannel
    @AvCAnothervapeChannel 4 роки тому +2

    The things we hold onto are as unique as the people we are trying to hold onto.

  • @JustinHaskellWheelz
    @JustinHaskellWheelz 4 роки тому +2

    Glad this video is back after people got it taken down. I guess they didn't know the audio is supposed to sound old.

  • @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp
    @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 4 роки тому

    The quality of the most recent films in DUST are fantastic!

  • @MikePuorro
    @MikePuorro 4 роки тому +1

    "This will all end in tears, I just know it."

  • @Deebz270
    @Deebz270 3 роки тому

    'Auto' - Great, great, great grandfather of Will Robinson's 'Robot'.

  • @giraffebecky
    @giraffebecky Рік тому

    This was brilliant! I absolutely loved it! Keep it coming!

  • @krazeediamond1
    @krazeediamond1 4 роки тому +1

    "Number 5 is alive!" I 💘 the irony at the end, what a twist! 😁

  • @christiansoldier5782
    @christiansoldier5782 4 роки тому +7

    And to think Their still doing This Treatment Today. Great Show

  • @garicrewsen1128
    @garicrewsen1128 4 роки тому +29

    I've watched and read a LOT of sci-fi in my half century here. With only a few exceptions, this was, by leagues, the most difficult story to endure. In this genre, in my opinion, this is a masterpiece of tale telling. I'm very curious to view what's been percolating 'neath that gifted mind of yours. Here's to the future. Hope to see you soon.

    • @jcayzac
      @jcayzac 4 роки тому

      It reminded me of the movie "Hugo" about a boy who tries to connect with his departed father through a robot he was building, also in late XIXe century IIRC.

    • @mesoflushy
      @mesoflushy 2 роки тому +1

      Said the filmmakers dad

  • @oxymoron02
    @oxymoron02 4 роки тому +3

    I'm loving this so far, but the mastered volume is so quiet compared to the rest of UA-cam.

  • @kevmodee1866
    @kevmodee1866 4 роки тому +23

    In her time of pain, with a mother suffering from dementia, and having lost her husband; a woman finds comfort through an invention ahead of it's time, made by her husband. Sadly, an overzealous religious nut job does the typical and passes judgement on her because her joy is found through something she(the b#tch) doesn't feel is in line with the church's faith. Back then, within a religious community, a pastor's judgement is practically law; much like during the Salem witch trials. So of course he found the robot to be intelligent so it must be of Satan; thus quantifying a commitment to the insane asylum for the young lady. Sadly, this crushed her mental capacities that held onto sanity. Truly a sad story, but oh so true to life, even today freedoms of expression and religion are trampled on by our very own leadership.🥺😷 Thank you for the upload.

    • @donaldmack2307
      @donaldmack2307 4 роки тому +4

      Well said.

    • @1TalldrinkH2O
      @1TalldrinkH2O 4 роки тому +1

      I love you or reference to Covid-19 politics with the mask covered (-: .

    • @markmunroe-hz8rf
      @markmunroe-hz8rf 4 роки тому +2

      It's not that I am anti-religious, I just hate ignorant religious folks who can't see beyond their extremist ideals. It extends not only to overzealous religious people, but to secular ones as well. Treat everyone with respect, whether you agree with them or not.

  • @Tsiri09
    @Tsiri09 4 роки тому

    You have to admire the person who created this for the movie using the technology of the 1800's. It's spectacular.

  • @Waltham1892
    @Waltham1892 4 роки тому +6

    Skynet becomes self aware: August 29, 1885.

    • @CallMeMrRook
      @CallMeMrRook 4 роки тому +2

      And sent out it's first terminator, the Tfour2, to find Sarah Connor's grand mother?

    • @Dude101p
      @Dude101p 4 роки тому

      Exzactly what i was thinking 😂

  • @yeahrightbear8883
    @yeahrightbear8883 4 роки тому +2

    I know a girl who has had electroconvulsive therapy done to her close to 20 times. She's even more messed up now than she was before. I can't believe they still do that to people.

    • @jv-lk7bc
      @jv-lk7bc 4 роки тому

      how can you still call it therapy?

  • @argon1611
    @argon1611 4 роки тому +1

    this was rather extraordinary, thank you

  • @MikinessAnalog
    @MikinessAnalog 3 роки тому

    This just demonstrates, technology changes. People rarely do.

  • @MarcelGomesPan
    @MarcelGomesPan 3 роки тому

    I love that it is set in the 1800’s. 🎩
    It gives it almost a Steampunk/ Frankenstein flavor without being either.

  • @TruthPrevail777
    @TruthPrevail777 3 роки тому

    Feels like it's a Sci-fi being told through Shakespeare's drama. The time, the music, dark religion and human ingenuity. Couldn't have been done in a better setting.

  • @almatt21
    @almatt21 4 роки тому +1

    Pastor Evens, it's none of your business (2020) 🤣😂 fab short film 👍

  • @AlgoRhythmmike
    @AlgoRhythmmike 4 роки тому +2

    Steam Punk lives! Great film here.

  • @DaveKraft1
    @DaveKraft1 4 роки тому +5

    A timely parable for the age, THIS age: intelligent thought, kindness, happiness - crushed by patronizing ignorance and self-righteousness incapable of understanding any of those.

  • @Aishindojo
    @Aishindojo 4 роки тому +1

    So glad she got the help she needed at the end - so looking forward to everyone getting their Covid shots wether they want them or not.

    • @cyohe8643
      @cyohe8643 4 роки тому

      I sincerely hope this was sarcasm.

    • @Aishindojo
      @Aishindojo 4 роки тому +1

      @@cyohe8643 - *groan* yes, too many people out there trying to force people into doing what they think is right because they are idiots.

  • @franganmacloud8046
    @franganmacloud8046 4 роки тому

    Madness is a happiness and the blessing!

  • @PopJacare
    @PopJacare 4 роки тому +1

    Wow! Very sad. But very good!

  • @johnmanno2052
    @johnmanno2052 Рік тому

    Give the tech crew and prop designer who made that 19th century android Oscars.

  • @silus212seven7
    @silus212seven7 4 роки тому +1

    THAT WAS WAY BEYOND GOOD!!!!, the acting was fantastic, what an awesome true representation of life back then and today still, not everyone is or was the same, people always expect others to be just as they are..not everybody is going to fall into the same mold even though we may be surrounded by duplicates its not logical to think we are alone in an endless universe that there's not something other than ourselves and neither is it logical to expect everyone else should think ,act like ,look like, walk like or talk like we do, the i,i,i,iiii, is a prison for the mind and death to understanding ,this is why it's not good to live in a neighborhood of only one kind of people because it only reinforces the notion that you and what you are is something to be regarded above all else, when all your doing is destroying with your ignorance, yes love your own and that with passion, thats your whole obligation as a human being but you and yours do not comprise the universe.

  • @EldritchMango
    @EldritchMango 4 роки тому +3

    The tragedy and the pain hurt so strong and in all the right places. I applaud the whole crew for making this short such an amazing piece of art

  • @takispothitos
    @takispothitos 4 роки тому

    Will you like it? I don't know. Is it worth watching? Absolutely YES!!!

  • @StephenJEscobedo
    @StephenJEscobedo 4 роки тому

    Just want to say I really loved this one, and hope that AUTO finds his way.

  • @emiliebova
    @emiliebova 4 роки тому +3

    The score was wonderful. Copland echoes

  • @atnorthabc
    @atnorthabc 3 роки тому

    What a great story so believable and to some extent true. The Auto Machine was amazing to watch and well thought out thankyou for this story

  • @durasaxon5131
    @durasaxon5131 4 роки тому

    A 'Benevolent' machine.
    In the end of the story-
    An 'Electrical Shock Therapy'
    machine.
    Not too benevolent.
    A Dichotomy of confluences.
    Left alone, I believe all
    would have been well.
    I knew their would be trouble.
    It is a sad ending.
    I found this film
    quite intriguing.
    * * * * * / 5 Stars of 5

  • @mshayashi
    @mshayashi 3 роки тому

    The movie was cut short...I didn't expect to end like that.

  • @TRAVELLEROFWORLDS
    @TRAVELLEROFWORLDS 4 роки тому +11

    People are the dangerous ones. Technology is but a tool. But we can be good...

  • @R2D2999
    @R2D2999 4 роки тому

    Whoa! O.K...Damn. Imma be thinkin' about THAT one for a while. Thanks!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

  • @Baud2Bits
    @Baud2Bits 4 роки тому

    An excellent short; complete in every way.

  • @grantsiemensma4978
    @grantsiemensma4978 3 роки тому

    That was so good. I feel happy and sad about the film.

  • @debajeetbasak6531
    @debajeetbasak6531 4 роки тому +6

    People fear what they don't understand

  • @slagit
    @slagit 4 роки тому

    Nice but sad story in the end. I really enjoyed the retro robot design!

  • @Axgoodofdunemaul
    @Axgoodofdunemaul 5 місяців тому

    Very well done, and original too. It's like a Ray Bradbury story.

  • @noth606
    @noth606 3 роки тому

    most steampunk I've seen on DUST, cool stuff

  • @gregsimmons1709
    @gregsimmons1709 3 роки тому

    Beautiful.

  • @scottcupp8129
    @scottcupp8129 2 роки тому

    I loved this so much. I am watching it for the 4th time in a row.

  • @fnordly
    @fnordly 4 роки тому

    the automaton design is a boss

  • @inwex8350
    @inwex8350 3 роки тому

    Wonderful score and creative sound design!

  • @1TalldrinkH2O
    @1TalldrinkH2O 4 роки тому +3

    Very well done!!
    The leaders of the town spoke down to the widow and her mother. Then they judged against her untypical way of finding happiness. They tried to make themselves appear loving but clearly were not.
    1st Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

  • @SierraThunder
    @SierraThunder 4 роки тому +1

    You would have thought that the property master would have thought to remove or mask the "quartz" emblem off of the small clock on the table in the barn, (as there were no small clocks that even remotely looked like that in the late 1890's), they should have at least tried to find an old wind-up alarm clock, or at least a replica, I know that they make them as I own one.

  • @evenorahpausetdaviod4368
    @evenorahpausetdaviod4368 3 роки тому

    a masterpiece...

  • @robertcullins4636
    @robertcullins4636 4 роки тому

    Great acting! Love Mrs Cooper & the Pastor

  • @eleventen9160
    @eleventen9160 4 роки тому +1

    masterwork

  • @kusheran
    @kusheran 4 роки тому

    In the land of the blind...
    Meaningful music and interesting connections are the only sources of human happiness on this 'barren plain' of existence. All else is madness.
    ... the one with night vision binoculars is terrifying!

  • @lisanidog8178
    @lisanidog8178 Рік тому

    Wow 1897. Even before my grandparents.

  • @steveberryman2710
    @steveberryman2710 4 роки тому +2

    I found this very depressing. left me feeling sad.