The horizontal bands of color in these landscape quilts - which are titled West, East, North, and South -
echo iconic views of nature: a brilliant, Hollywood - tinged Western sunset or the truncated horizon above a frozen New England lake.
The film is full of visual spectacle, from the towering citadel of the station's main clock with a panoramic
view of the City of Lights (where Hugo has a harrowing climb to hide from Gustav that
echoes the
iconic image of Harold Lloyd dangling from hand of a clock in Safety Last!)