Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "The Necropod was on hand and the Manipulatrix was there. But the main attraction at the RoboChrist Industries robot battle in the parking lot of the Center for Inquiry was Christian Ristow's Subjugator. Ristow is the son of a plastic surgeon and a fine artist. He studied architecture at Columbia University. Now he specializes in what he calls "post-apocalyptic mayhem." First, the hydraulically-driven triple claws of the Subjugator crushed the Thanksgiving table - "symbolizing the Christian ideal of family," explained Ristow. Mom, Dad, brother, sis, and the Thanksgiving turkey were incinerated in place by the Subjugator's high-powered flamethrower. Then the machine commenced to move on steel treads toward the fifteen-foot-high cross constructed of 55-gallon drums filled with fake blood."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Cinematography--Special effects Robots--California--Los Angeles Robots--Motion Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs Night photographs
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