This film is an invitation to travel, a journey through time where the most extraordinary creatures coexist : the automata of VAUCANSON, the chess player of Baron von KEMPELEN, the talking heads of the Abbot MICAL and the magicians of the brothers MAILLARDET ...
DVD PAL Zone 2 Stereo Sound Screen 4/3 - Colors Language : English / French
Total Running Time 1h30mn approx
Between 1770 and 1773, after the death of his young wife and daughter, Pierre JAQUET-DROZ, clockmaker, was constituted a "small family engineering".
A worthy successor to the famous VAUCANSON he created with his son, Henri-Louis and Jean-Frederic LESCOT, sophisticated androids for real functions whose size, shape and movements closely mimicked nature.
The birth of these automata writer, artist and musician step illustrations of medical research, the manufacture of artificial organs and mechanical prostheses for alternatives to the missing members. Like VAUCANSON, the willingness of JAQUET-DROZ was not only entertain the public but rather to educate and advance science.
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BONUS DVD
2 Slideshows
A Short History of the songbird
Cave of Jaquet-Droz
The story of Versailles
The watchmaker, the automaton and the three mysteries
The enigma of the writer-illustrator
The dulcimer player
Portrait automata
Automata magicians
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DVD PAL Zone 2 Stereo Sound Screen 4/3 - Colors Language : English / French