12: Something's Moving: Tales of Automatons

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

What are automatons you might ask? Automatons are mechanical figures that can mimic the movements and actions of living beings. It is quite an ancient art actually. Our tales this month will leave you wide-eyed with wonder and awe and with more than a little unease.

See video of the special guest we had at the show here: https://youtu.be/qgIRFUJ0Rss

HUGE thanks to our friends at the Morris Museum for bringing our special guest from the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection. Check out the museum at http://www.morrismuseum.org/

Recorded live at The Slipper Room on October 25th, 2015

Cast:
Ali Silva (@alisilvapresent)
Courtenay Cholovich (@thegoodfalconer)
Allison Guinn (@A_Guinner)
Alain LaForest
Kacie LaForest
Michael Pate (@michaeldpate)
James Rieser

Musical Interludes:
Martina DaSilva (@ladybugsjazzband)

Live Atmospheric Music:
Steve Blanco (@pianowarrior)

Production Sound Designer and Mechanism Master:
Greg Russ

FMT Intro Theme by Jason Graves (@jgmusic)

Writers:
Silbin Sandovar (@sandovar)
Rebecca Graves (@therebeccagraves)

Production Team:
Ali Silva (@alisilvapresent)
Gustavo Rodriguez (@sandovar)
Daniel Graves (@thedanielgraves)
Rebecca Graves (@therebeccagraves)

Production Assistant:
Dalia Mazel

Podcast Production Team:
Producer - Daniel Graves (@thedanielgraves)
Associate Producer - Greg Russ

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Behind a red velvet curtain, it sits and waits.
0:07.0	The hunched figure Behind a red velvet curtain, it sits and waits.
0:23.6	The hunched figure of a blonde, fair-haired porcelain boy,
0:27.6	about 36 inches high, sits at an ebony finished writing desk.
0:33.6	Its ruddy lips remain half open, while melancholy crystal blue eyes stare almost pleadingly.
0:43.3	At what? At you?
0:46.3	At me? The infinite, perhaps?
0:51.3	With the simple turn of the key.
0:55.0	This clockwork doll will raise its hand, a pen poised in its fingers,
1:05.0	and then dips the pen into an inkwell beside it.
1:10.0	It lowers its head and blinks its eyes knowingly
1:13.6	before stopping to gaze at you directly, once more as if
1:18.6	to ask you something.
1:21.6	It lowers its head once again and begins to write upon a small card. This is quite a special figure.
1:31.3	No one can say for sure when it was made,
1:34.3	but most experts who are knowledgeable on the subject of automata
1:39.3	can safely assess that it was built by a Swiss clockmaker,
1:43.3	probably from Luzanne in the mid to late 18th century.
1:50.0	Peel back the boy's crimson jacket, and you will see that it is filled with thousands of tiny gears, switches, leavers and springs.
2:04.6	A true marvel of human ingenuity.
2:08.6	Apparently it has quite a history.
2:11.6	It has traveled all parts of the globe, changing owners many times over the course of the last 240 years.
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