April 10 movie: The Ascent of Man. Disc 3 includes 3 episodes: "The Starry Messenger," about the trial of Galileo; "The Majestic Clockwork," about Kepler, Newton and Einstein's Theory of Relativity; and "The Drive for Power," about the Industrial Revolution.
"The Drive for Power" includes footage of amazing automata (mechanical dolls) created in pre-revolutionary France. There were automata that drew real pictures, ones with moving eyeballs and even one whose chest rose and fell as it "breathed."
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