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Released
1921 · FILM

The Mechanical Man

Directed by
Written by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
80 min
Language
IT
ComedyScience Fiction

Synopsis

The story begins with a scientist who invents a device in the shape of a man, controllable remotely by a machine. The mechanical man possesses superhuman speed and strength. The scientist is killed by a gang of criminals led by a woman named Mado, who seeks the instructions for building the mechanical man. The criminals are captured before they can obtain the instructions and are put on trial, ultimately being condemned. Mado escapes and kidnaps the scientist's niece, forcing her to provide the instructions, which she uses to construct her own mechanical man.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 7

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Alberto Chentrens

Also known as

  • The Mechanical Manen

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