<![CDATA[Silent Running is 54 years old today.]]>Silent Running is 54 years old today. A thoughtful, melancholy science fiction classic that still feels distinct all these years later. Bruce Dern carries so much of that lonely haunted mood, and its stayed with me ever since I saw it for the first time.

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Also, the background behind the maintenance drones, and the actors inside them.

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1971 - "Silent Running" Drones - Doug Trumbull, Don Trumbull, Paul Kraus & James Dow (American) - cyberneticzoo.com

Silent Running depicts a future in which all plant life on Earth is extinct. The resident botanist enlists the spaceship's 3 service robots, called drones.

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