Loss of Sensation, alternatively titled Robot of Jim Ripple, Russian: «Гибель сенсации» («Робот Джима Рипль») is a 1935 Soviet science fiction sound film directed by Alexandr Andriyevsky. The film's plot is centered on an engineer Jim Ripple who invents universal robots to help workers, being himself from a workers' family. He theorizes that cheap production will make all goods so cheap that Capitalism will fall. The workers do not share his view and his family considers him a traitor. A key element of his invention is a high-capacity capacitor that powers the robots. The government becomes interested in the invention because the robots can be used as a weapon as well. Ripple is given a top secret factory and funding so that he can produce robots. The robots are not autonomous or intellige