# Iron Giants and Marble Midgets *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Aug 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### William H. Ansley *16 Aug 1999, 23:42* In the new Warner Bros. animated film _The Iron Giant_, the title character, a gigantic robot, does not have a very mobile face. There is a scene in the film where he smiles and in my opinion the animators intend it to look as if he does this by shifting the angle of his head, much as Maytera Marble did in the _Long Sun_ books. By the way, I HIGHLY recommend this film. It is the best movie (animated or otherwise) that I have seen in years. I am cross-posting this message in case there is anyone who reads only one of the lists, because I really think everyone who likes any form of science fiction should go see it. (Sorry, there are no midgets in this message, but I couldn't resist the title.) William Ansley ---