He invites a film scholar to see that the old man is not dead, as everyone presumed, and the old man reveals that he was once a magician who built the automaton as part of his show, and went into film as soon as it came out, but fell on hard times and had to give up his dreams. When the old man sees the picture when Hugo comes inside he falls ill at the reminder of his past, a revelation which leads Hugo to the film archives to discover that the old man was once a filmmaker. The whole family believes him a thief, and now divested of purpose but unwilling to forsake his friendship with Isabelle, or her half of the drawing they fought over, Hugo follows her home and gets his fingers smashed in her door. Hugo manages to fix the automaton on his own, but has to steal Isabelle’s key to make it work, and when she follows him to it they both witness it drawing a scene from a movie Hugo’s father saw.
When he disappears mysteriously Hugo finds the automaton and brings it to the station where he tries to fix it with parts stolen from a toy booth, but when the man who owns the toy booth takes his father’s notebook Hugo finds himself working for the sour old man while his adopted daughter, Isabelle, tries to get the notebook back. When the museum burns down and he dies, Hugo is taken in by his uncle, the drunken timekeeper of the train station. His father finds an automaton, a mechanical man, in the upper stories of a museum. Using text, drawings and screen shots it tells the story of Hugo, the son of a clockmaker with a gift for gear-oriented technology and slight-of-hand.
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” is a multi-media novel written and illustrated by Brian Selznick.
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