{"id":984,"date":"2023-01-13T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=984"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:17:42","slug":"playmates-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2023\/01\/13\/playmates-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"Playmates (1922)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Playmates<\/em> is a short film in which two actors dressed up as children show off the latest in groundbreaking animatronic toys from 1922.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/playmates001s.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/playmates001s.png 800w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/playmates001s-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/playmates001s-768x574.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Playing out like very early test screens for JF Sebastian&#8217;s workshop in <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, this is all usurprisingly horrifying, combining both the enduring disquiet of animatronic dolls with the utter mortal terror of human adults dressed as and pretending to be very young children. Completely monstrous.<\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/strong> <em>I watched this on the <a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-playmates-1922-online\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BFI Player<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <em>I like the way these sort of horrifying animatronic toys have barely changed in a century.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> <em>Motorised beasts lumbering uselessly around in circles on a table in your local toy shop every Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <em>Only occasionally received as presents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> <em>But somehow endlessly disappointing whenever they are.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Information<\/p>\n<p>Title: <\/strong><em>Playmates<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> <em>1922<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong> <em>2 minutes<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Watch:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-playmates-1922-online\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BFI Player<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playmates is a short film in which two actors dressed up as children show off the latest in groundbreaking animatronic toys from 1922. Playing out like very early test screens for JF Sebastian&#8217;s workshop in Blade Runner, this is all usurprisingly horrifying, combining both the enduring disquiet of animatronic dolls with the utter mortal terror [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[350,453,456,117,455,451,452,454],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-more-than-100-years-old","tag-350","tag-animatronics","tag-blade-runner","tag-horror","tag-mlita-dolores","tag-playmates","tag-toys","tag-will-hay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}