TY  - ADVS
AU  - Govenar,Alan
AU  - Mouchet,Lucien
ED  - Les Blank Films (Firm),
ED  - Kanopy (Firm),
TI  - The Poetry of Exactitude
PY  - 2009///
PB  - Les Blank Films
KW  - Artists
KW  - Art
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; Lucien Mouchet; Originally produced by Les Blank Films in 2009
N2  - Since 1946, Lucien Mouchet has been making small-scale reproductions of carousels and fairground scenes that existed in the past or are still in operation today. A machinist by trade, Mouchet retired nearly two decades ago, but his obsession with precision and detail has continued. To date, he has created 48 carousels; each is a functioning masterpiece that is constructed to be exactly 1/20 scale of the original. Mouchet works from photographs and measurements he has taken over the years of carousels that have toured France and across Europe. Mouchet tediously prepares shop drawings and hand-tooled parts, analyzing the different modes of assembly and the varying principles of movement. He combines an expertise in engineering with whimsical recreations of the carnival atmosphere, replete with electrical motors, lights, signage, transport trucks and miniature people, made by him and hand-painted by his wife, Georgette
UR  - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/5913519
UR  - https://www.kanopy.com/node/5913519/external-image
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