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Leave It to Roll-Oh



Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940.                                              
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Video Information
Year: 1940
Genre: Ephemeral
Keywords: Robotics;Gender roles;Futurism;
Duration: 00:08:42
Color: No
Sound: Yes
Amount of Motion: n/a
Language: English
Sponsor: Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation
Contributing Organization: Internet Archive
Transcript Available: No

Digitization Information
Digitization Date: 2001
Digitizing Organization: Internet Archive

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