Scorsese's secret weapon wasn't 3D—it was a 200-year-old robot.
This documentary looks back at the history of automata but also briefly examines the design of the automaton seen in the film "Hugo."
Production
Rare glimpse at Scorsese's actual automaton research.
Director
Barbara Toennies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The automaton in Hugo was based on an actual 1820s writing android by Henri Maillardet, which could write poems and draw pictures.
Scorsese's obsession with the machine mirrors his own filmmaking—painstaking, analog, and slightly obsolete in a digital age.
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