Almost five minutes long, this ILM-produced video shows us the nuts and bolts (and other pieces of machinery), the ins and outs (and extreme zooms), and the black and white (in glorious color) of how The Avengers was put together.

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The gene in question is harboured in pieces of cellular machinery known as mitochondria.

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Anyone keeping a pulse on the S60 scene knows that for Nokia's complex little pieces of smartphone machinery, firmware updates tend to come fast and furious.

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Also, some cargo just isn't nice to have in your passenger compartment. (Bags of fertilizer or pieces of greasy machinery come to mind.) The Avalanche's bed is covered in a tough plastic lining, easily hosed out or just left harmlessly filthy.

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What if it was possible to break a complex piece of machinery into a thousand pieces and then, at some predetermined moment, have the machine put itself back together again?

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As disparate pieces of the tale come together, you can almost hear the clanking of insufficiently oiled machinery.

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