Back in 2013, I shared the following image:
http://www.robothut.robotnut.com/houdiniPaperRobotPages.html
Since then, I have come across some additional information posted in 2010 by “robothut” aka John Rigg’s, the maker of the above paper robot reproductions of “Q” from the Master Mystery.
robothut: I received my reproduction poster and built up the paper Houdini robot. The poster is all in Spanish, there is no date or copyright on the poster. So there is no way to know if this handout poster for kids as it says in Spanish, was made back in 1919 when the movie was made or at a later date. I have also increased the scale of the robot to make it easier to build. There is a place on the poster that says Mr. M. Barrenchea did the artwork. So any Spanish friends out there that can track down any info on this guy? The small robot is from the poster scale and is about 7.5 inches tall, the larger one is my scale and is about 9.5 inches tall.
robothut: I just got a reply from the seller of this [reproduction] poster in Spain. The original was made in the early 20’s. I don’t know anything about the drawer [artist]. I attached you in this email some pictures of the original (front and back). So as you can see he took images from the back of this poster and added them to the front layout for the reproduction copies he sells.
So, the 7.5 inch tall and 9.5 inch paper robots made by “robothut” were originally created from the above reproduction poster.
The first image from “robothut” shows the front and back of the original (12.75 x 8.75 in) for comparison to the reproduction poster (19.5 x 13.5 in).
