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The 2011 fantasy adventure movie directed by Martin Scorsese plays in Paris in the 1930s. It tells the story of the clockmaker's son Hugo Cabret, who loses his father at the age of twelve and has to live with his always drunken uncle Claude in the Gare de Montparnasse, a big railway station. Hugo's uncle is responsible for the smooth running of the stations clocks. When he goes missing Hugo is afraid he will be turned away by the stations inspector and secretly takes over Claude's job, in the hope no one will realise a kid is now running the business.
Living in the roof of the station, he get caught stealing from the unfriendly toy store owner George and meets his goddaughter Isabelle. Together with his new friend, Hugo tries to solve the riddle of an automaton he inherited from his father. Hugo and Isabelle discover George's secret, that leads back to the days when moving pictures were first introduced.
Scorsese' Oscar winning 3D-film is based on Brian Selznick's book . In magical pictures it tells a story based on the true background of George Méliès' life, a magician, toy maker and early film maker. Some surviving original film material of Méliès is integrated in the film, namely Le voyage dans la lune as well as the famous scene of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
This film is a must for all movie history enthusiasts as well as fans of intricate clockwork and automatons.
Forever Boy (#1 in Clockpunk Wizard series) by LitaBurkeWriter
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A dog flees his cruel master, befriends a wizard, and discovers his shapeshifting magic.
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For ten years, Karla and Kio have known nothing but Nashido, a castle floating thousands of feet above a vast ocean. Every day, they tend the massive vines that produce the oxygen they breathe, hunt birds for dinner with spring-loaded spears, and charge the castle's engine battery by steering through lightning storms.
They don't remember much about when there were other people on Nashido, and the parts they do remember, they don't talk about. Ever.
One thing keeps them going: Raven, an ornithopter they're patching together in the hope of one day reaching the surface. Both of them have promised that they'll set out for land together, or not at all.
But then a skeletal winged beast attacks the castle without warning, reminding Karla and Kio how little they know about their flying prison...or about one another.
From there, things spiral out of control, and I don't want to spoil too much, but it will involve creepy star fortresses, shapeshifters, glider fleets, hurricanes, robots, and a pinch of impending doom. What are you waiting for?
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"In the Fifteenth Century, the Aether held the universe together. In the Nineteenth Century, it just might tear it apart."
This is the first draft, posted exclusively on Wattpad. The final version, edited and funded via an Indiegogo campaign is now available on Amazon - http://amzn.com/B00QO5K8VQ.
That's not all - the follow-up novella "A Christmas Aether" can be got for FREE at http://peteroxleyauthor.com/readers-group-landing-page/***
Augustus Merriwether Potts is an itinerant writer who has squandered the bulk of a sizable inheritance and come to rest in the raucous melancholy of Victorian London's dismal East End. Having failed to achieve any prominence as a writer, his prospects fading, Augustus dulls the pain with the earthy pleasures of taverns, fallen women, and laudanum. His older brother Maxwell, though aloof and often disagreeable, reluctantly renders support and ultimately draws the puckish Augustus into his unnerving investigations into the supernatural. An inventor of sorts, Maxwell has begun to harness the unfathomable mystic power of Aether, the fabled Fifth Element. Soon, a chance encounter with an extraordinary stranger called N'yotsu will touch off a breathtaking series of remarkable events, revealing a bizarre realm of malevolent power and unlocking the secrets of that dark quintessence: The Infernal Aether.
