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W.I.S.O.R. (2001)

The Robo-Welder

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 15M

Director : Michel Negroponte

Synopsis

In a lab somewhere on the Lower East Side, a team of scientists and engineers are designing a robot named W.I.S.O.R.; a futuristic, subterranean robo welder that, being able to withstand temperatures of 300 degrees and navigate through the snaking, hundred-mile long world of buried steam pipes beneath Manhattan, will repair the rapidly decaying century-old system. New York's little known or understood underground steam pipes provide the necessary heat and hot water for everything from Chinese laundries and Turkish baths to the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building. A thousand engineering hours behind a schedule and way over budget, Honeybee Robotics, W.I.S.O.R.'s creators, are worried. They argue, discuss God, baseball, and technology and ultimately lead us into a futuristic world originally thought impossible in this eerie, stranger than fiction tale set in the city beneath the city.

Actors

George Bartenieff
George Bartenieff
Babi Floyd
Babi Floyd
Gilbert Giles
Gilbert Giles

Crews

Michel Negroponte
Michel Negroponte
Director
Gabriel Morgan
Gabriel Morgan
Writer
Michel Negroponte
Michel Negroponte
Writer
Michel Negroponte
Michel Negroponte
Producer
Jane Weiner
Jane Weiner
Producer
Carrie Giunta
Carrie Giunta
Music
Beo Morales
Beo Morales
Music
Michel Negroponte
Michel Negroponte
Cinematography
Tom Cross
Tom Cross
Editor

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