Notes from the attic: Hugo

We watched Marty Scorsese's Hugo in movie club a while ago, before everything turned to robots. It was a lot of fun. Definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of Méliès and A Trip to the Moon. Maybe the coolest thing, though, was in the DVD extras. I had no idea about the history of automatons (or automata, if you wanna get all Latin-y). Talk about cool robots. Check this out:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oSFNKIlaM&feature=related[/youtube]

So many gears...