A charming short film about a robot actress’s screen test by the director ofSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

On its control surface , Gumdrop is a rather straightforward short about a robot actress have her screen test for a movie with a big - name star . But Gumdrop herself is filled with buckets of tremendous nervous vigour , and the short contains some surprising animated sequence , including ones in which our robot ingénue is digitally introduce into old movies with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Astaire .

Gumdrop was written and co - conduct by Kerry Conran ( creator and director of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ) , along with Avatar , The Avengers , and Iron Man 2 visual effects film director Stephen Lawes . The old movie sequences are quite wonderful , as is the cryptical and seductive Tik - Tok . But it leaves us with one question : do robot in the world of Gumdrop get their own version of psychodelic drug , or can they take the same drug everyone else does ?

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