{"id":89,"date":"2006-09-24T01:11:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T06:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:01:34","slug":"ifv-reboots-robotman-for-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"IFV reboots RobotMan for short"},"content":{"rendered":"

From September 9, 2006:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Pedestrians<\/p>\n

Strolling through the University of Illinois campus on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the average underclassman – heck, the average citizen of Champaign-Urbana – is usually hard-pressed to come upon a sight such as the one above. Or, better yet, the ones that follow.<\/p>\n

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\"Michael<\/p>\n

Not having given up the ghost after spearheading the student film epic, THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY<\/strong>, UIUC graduate Chris Lukeman<\/strong> (wearing fashionable MUMMY<\/strong> duds) revives an off-campus creation as a tool with which\u00a0to instruct current members of the Illini Film & Video<\/strong> club.<\/p>\n

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\"Chris<\/p>\n

Illini\u00a0Film & Video<\/a> (IFV)\u00a0regular Michael Bach<\/strong> (of “Horror Stories” fame) squares off against “RobotMan,” an impressive costume constructed by\u00a0Lukeman and friends in the Springfield, Illinois, area for a prior 40-minute short, ROBOTMAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"One<\/p>\n

Such public displays of mayhem are\u00a0arranged by\u00a0IFV president Alex Wayman<\/strong> as an accesible outing\u00a0during which new members can see veterans at work and join in if they desire.<\/p>\n

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\"Alternate<\/p>\n

Echoing a policy used during the making of MUMMY<\/strong>, the creature is portrayed by multiple people to insure that RobotVolunteers get a break after enduring the heavy costume for multiple takes.<\/p>\n

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\"Michael<\/p>\n

The plot for “Untitled RobotMan Short” involves Bach finding a gleaming automation in front of That’s Rentertainment<\/strong> (where else?), seemingly gift-wrapped for the taking. His interest in the seven-foot-tall freebee waxes and wanes in rapid succession as he pieces together a cardboard sign, suspiciously torn to shreds and littered about the sidewalk\u00a0– not that such littering ever<\/em> happens in Campustown.<\/p>\n

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\"Anne<\/p>\n

Anne Shivers<\/strong>, current IFV secretary and “Moon Gal” in MUMMY<\/strong>, provides a good look at a shard of RobotMan’s enigmatic message. Has he come to Earth with a mission of peace or merely bent on bloody carnage? Fans of the earlier ROBOTMAN<\/strong> will probably have a good idea where this is headed.<\/p>\n

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\"One<\/p>\n

Case in point.<\/p>\n

– Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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All ROBOTMAN photos by JaPan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illini Film & Video takes it to the streets … and RobotMan tags along for the ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-student-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}