Within the last couple of weeks, whilst searching for good mechanical
music articles on the Internet, I came across a site for a musical
museum which was exhibiting automata clocks from the Beijing museum.
There was a compilation movie showing them individually in action
against a white background, superbly filmed with many close-up shots.

I was entranced, as I have never seen anything like this working
before.  I recall that there were two 'elephant clocks', and that
several of the pieces were by Cox of London; just stunning!

That is the good news.  The bad news is that I cannot for the life
of me recall how I found this site, whether or not the exhibition was
current or, most importantly, if the museum was in Europe or the USA.
I realise that this information is of somewhat limited utility,  but
I offer it in the hope that someone out there has further information
and that this may jog their memory.

This short movie on YouTube, filmed in the museum, will give a taster:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWyW8DHLkyM
 

Rowland Lee
Lincolnshire, UK

 [ See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWgtiD_uFc
 
 [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HJkbajYJ2Y
 
 [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9gmsnyFKv4
 
 [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lrm5V65-Uk
  -- Robbie