Just received the following from David Haversat Zanadu LLC:
We got our hands on a stack of this recently produced poster for Houdini’s Master Mystery. It’s a 24” x 18” heavy stock image containing the plans to cut-out and build your own miniature robot as seen in The Master Mystery starring Harry Houdini. The Robot “The Automation – Q” was the first film to be featured in a film.
Order while supplies last! Email: haversat@gmail.com for details.
Above is what Q looks like if you build him.
History of Paper Robot:
Early 1920’s – Originally in Spanish, M. Barrenchea created the art as a promotional piece geared for children (above)
HHCE Collection
2010 – A repro poster sold out of Spain (above)
http://www.robothut.robotnut.com/houdiniPaperRobotPages.html
2013 – HHCE shares the above 2010 image:
2014 – Potter and Potter sold an extremely rare original (above)
2018 – HHCE adds (rare) repro poster from Spain to HHCE collection
2020 – HHCE shares image of repro poster from Spain
2020 – Eddie Guevaro of the House of the Unusual contacts HHCE about buying a copy of my repro poster for his collection
2020 – HHCE lets Eddie know that I am not the maker of the repro poster and only have the one copy
2022 – House of the Unusual releases their version (written in english) of the repro poster, which was proudly added to the HHCE collection via David Haversat
It is a pretty cool piece, and like the Spanish original & repro, it is sure to be a collector’s item in the future.