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Clockmaker is a 1971 short film directed by Richard Gayer. It is a look at the one-man cottage industry of Martin Burgess, a man who has revived the medieval craft of ornamental clock-making and who is solely responsible, for his bizarre, often gargantuan , but always strikingly elegant timepieces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 1973.

Fourteen-year-old Henry and his friends are about to change history. Sneaking into the apartment of an eccentric Clockmaker, the kids discover that the old man controls time for the entire world through an incredible array of magnificent timepieces and weird machines. When one of the curious kids accidentally pushes a wrong button and gets launched back in time, the space-time continuum is severely disrupted. As everything begins to change around them, the young adventurers must travel back in time to save their friend...and the future

Noximilien is just a failed inventor in need of recognition, nevertheless a simple but happy clockmaker with a wife and three children. He is a good father and lucky enough to be loved by his wife Galanthe, who covers him with her affection. But one fine day, everything changes when he discovers a magic cube, the Eliacube, at the bottom of a cave. Intrigued by the artefact, Noximilien decides to study it, rushes into a downward spiral and becomes addicted to its power.

In this experimental animated short from Renaud Hallée, we travel inside a mysterious mechanism made up entirely of revolving gearwheels, triangles and lines. In this whirling, hypnotic world, dozens of tiny gymnasts leap, somersault and twist through the air. Their spirited acrobatics trigger both narrative and musical sequences that are mesmerizing and, at times, dizzying. Half-figurative and half-abstract, The Clockmakers is a playful creation that is sure to captivate and dazzle its audience.

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know how to make.

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that day the Lord Mayor will receive bids for the building of a town clock.

A Clockmaker is entrusted to care for a world that runs like clockwork. But when his heart gets broken, he rages against time itself only to discover that unless he finds a cure for a broken heart, everything will end. The clockmaker tries desperately to find a cure in all matter of new creations.

The clockmaker's dog runs off to join the school that trains the famous St. Bernard rescue dogs in the Swiss Alps, but he is rejected. Meanwhile, the clockmaker goes searching for his pet and is lost. His dog finds him in an unorthodox way. He is rewarded for his work and returns to his master's home to bask in glory while the clockmaker makes a clock commemorating the event.

After losing his daughter, a troubled clockmaker teams up with a young woman to investigate the murder of her sister, soon he notices the parallels between two murders and a mystery begins to unfold around.

A New York City horologist tinkers and toils amongst hundreds of antique clocks in the basement-level shop he inherited from his late father.

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

A series of high-profile murders, a captured criminal, awaiting a final verdict—this is the subject of the documentary film that Irakli is working on. The production team is actively investigating the facts, meeting with people connected to the suspect, and even speaking with the detainee, who is held in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ detention center. The deeper the investigation goes, the more sharply society’s role in perpetuating injustice and the destruction of the free spirit comes into focus.

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

El Mono relojero is a 1938 Argentine animated short film directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is the only film from this director that exists up to this day, since all his other productions (including the first two animated feature films, El Apóstol (1917) and Sin dejar rastros (1918), as well as the first animated film with sound, Peludópolis (1931)) were lost in a series of fires at the facilities where the negatives and copies were stored.