Houdini was truly on the cutting edge. He wasn’t just the first man to fight a robot on film. He also jumped on the quick and relatively dirty “I’m at brunch and messaging you” thing REAL early, too.
https://gizmodo.com/houdini-was-the-first-person-to-fight-a-robot-on-film-368301
[Letterheady via Brendan Koerner]