Replied to a tweet by Kevin Marks (Twitter)

i wonder what was the first instance of "gynoid bangs" in scifi

i mean even without the bangs "kind of an angular bob" is like the official haircut of sentient AIs pic.twitter.com/24I2MINdIq
— DOCFUTURE (@topherflorence) August 23, 2018

Metropolis 1927? pic.twitter.com/Wq5QdDDFKK
— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) August 25, 2018

Then a few years earlier, Weimar era cinema also includes Der Golem (1915), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and later with influences from Louise Brooks lensed through the influential La Invencion De Morel (1940) by Adolfo Caesares.

One of the additional early contemporaneous cultural influences to these that I can think of is the 1917 version of Cleopatra.

Film poster for Der Golem (1915)

Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)

Film poster from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Film poster for Die Buchse der Pandora (1929) starring Louise Brooks

La Invencion de Morel by Adolfo Caesares