Miss Honeywell (1968)

Olympia, London. At the Instruments, Electronics and Automatic Exhibition we see a futuristic ’robot girl’ demonstrating various pieces of equipment by computer company Honeywell Controls Ltd. A man takes the headless robot body from a cupboard and puts a circuit disc into her back. Putting the body back in the cupboard, he closes the doors and fits the head on, plugs a cable running from the robot’s back into another cable, revolves a white glass dome over the robot’s head and opens the cupboard doors. He then flicks switches at a control board and the robot starts to move, coming out of the cupboard and walking around this exhibition stand before a crowd of boffins and scientists. ’Miss Honeywell’ - robot girl - is obviously someone in a robot suit, but commentator says “Honeywell’s own spokesman says he himself doesn’t know if this is electronic or mechanical or human flesh“. ’She’ apparently spoke like a dalek. Miss Honeywell looks at a large flashing computerised consul board, then demonstra