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Scene from Karel Capek's play "R.U.R." Set designed by: Lee Simonson. Costumes by: Kate Drain Lawson. - NYPL Digital Collections
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BBC Archive on Twitter: "#OnThisDay 1938: The first attempt at science fiction on television aired - a BBC adaptation of Karel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots. https://t.co/2rSOLu1If8" / Twitter
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