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A contemporary (1950s) example was in a Soviet animated educational film from that era (it may be among these: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...radio+tank+film ), which showed a multi-stage rocket--carried by a sleek jet-propelled "first stage"--that ultimately ended with a small "radio tank" (which was vaguely reminiscent of the three Lunokhod robotic lunar rovers [three were built, but only Lunokhod 1 and 2 were landed on the Moon, in the Mare Imbrium [the "Sea of Rains," in 1970] and in the crater-bay Le Monnier [in 1973], respectively]) that was deployed from the very last stage, and roamed about the lunar surface. Also: The film's animator(s) made each of the launch vehicle's--and the radio tanks'--movements *so* perfect that watching them almost sent an unpleasant shiver down my spine (even when I watched it on television, as a child). Not knowing why the too-perfect animated motions caused the vaguely unpleasant feeling made it worse.
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