Watch Clockmaker (1971) : Full Movie Online Free Clockmaker is a 1971 short film directed by Richard Gayer. It is a look at the one-man cottage industry of Martin Burgess, a man who has revived the medieval craft of ornamental clock-making and who is solely responsible, for his bizarre, often gargantuan , but always strikingly elegant timepieces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 1973.