Clocks had a big, and usually ominous, presence in movies made between the two world wars. By David Belcher Clocks, and the relentless progress of time, often loom as terrifying as Nosferatu’s fangs ...

Most clocks have hands that move to tell the time, but a group of clocks that also had moving eyes were popular about 1850. Most of these figural iron clocks were made by Bradley and Hubbard of ...