Automaton (credit: Paramount Pictures) Michael Scorsese’s instant classic Hugo is about a young orphaned boy, Hugo, who finds a new family. But the other diminutive character that breathes life ...

Hugo, a little boy, lives inside the vast clock mechanisms, orphaned and alone, living off stolen food and the dream of repairing the automaton that his father (Jude Law, lovely in his one scene ...

Hugo, shot in 3D, is a cinematic treat in 3D or 2D. Asa Butterfield plays a lonely orphan whose only connection to his late father, a clockmaker (Jude Law), is a broken automaton, or mechanical ...

"Hugo" is a strange movie. I'm not referring to its wondrous atmosphere, the mysterious automaton at its center, or the odd assortment of characters who populate it. No, I'm referring to simpler ...

Prop maker Dick George made sure the automaton from “Hugo” runs just like clockwork — or at least appears to work that way. “An automaton is a mechanical human being or animal that ...

Hugo, a little boy, lives inside the vast clock mechanism, orphaned and alone, living off stolen food and the dream of repairing the automaton that his father (Jude Law, lovely in his one scene ...

In the words of inventor (and father of science fiction) Hugo Gernsback, the Radio Automaton had "no superior for fighting mobs or for war purposes." ...

It's rough being a beginner, but it can be even rougher trying to live up to one's own legend. In Hugo, Martin Scorsese takes what might have been a charming children's movie and blows out and ...

PHILADELPHIA – The Franklin Institute’s automaton can’t help you find a good sushi place, direct you out of a traffic jam or check your bank balance, but the automaton, a mechanic… ...

An Academy Award-nominated movie is casting a bright spotlight on an unusual machine at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The science museum's 200-year-old automaton is a mechanical doll ...

The Franklin Institute's automaton can't help you find a good sushi place, direct you out of a traffic jam or check your bank balance. Skip to content. Close. Back America's Newspaper. 1. ...