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AUTOMATON
- Mechanical device which, with its movements, imitates the particular life of a person, plant or thing.
- Moving sculpture (Decamps).
- Alive machines.
- Artificial creatures which move themselves.
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Human beings are also automatons, genetically programmed robots provided with a sophisticated technology: knee-pans and tendons, brawny blowers, calibrated balance-beams, sounding bits,...
Wizard apprentices, obsessed with the achievement of knowing the mystery of life.
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ORIGINS
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* The first references to automatons date from 400 BC, when Heron of Alexandria writes a book about the making of machines and androids |
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| * In the Middle Ages there are many warriors, bell players, talking heads and mobile images and series of pictures | |||||
| * In XVIII, automatons take advantage of the huge technological development of watch machinery to empower its own breed, becoming the expensive and unique toys of European courts | |||||
| * The golden age of these mechanic-musical devices goes from 1850 to the beginning of XX, with names as essential as Decamps, Lambert, Vichy and Phalibois | |||||
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Spanish mechanical theatres, a great sample of Mediterranean popular art, have gone through fairs all over the country since 1920
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1947
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Espectáculos
ROCA
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Antonio
Plá, Constructor
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In October 1992, Gonzalo Cañas undertakes the recovering and restoring of the barrack HOLLYWOOD and, following theatre archaeology criteria, carries out its total recovery, offering again its full of genuine taste and nowadays unique show at the most representative cultural events in Spain and Europe, getting its current name:
TEATRO
DE AUTÓMATAS
(AUTOMATON THEATRE)
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Its mechanic actors have gone all over Spain and played their role for more than 100,000 hours
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