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Monday
Dec122011

Working Automata on Hugo

I've long thought Automatons to be very cool (and saw a bunch of cool ones at the Shelburne museum in Vermont this summer), and, while I've been too busy to see it, I know that they feature in a prominent role in the film Hugo.  Even cooler, it turns out, is that Scorsese (one of my all time favorite directors) had working Automatons built for the film, by UK prop shop Dick George Creatives, who has a very cool video:

Via Magic Newswire

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