Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom
1976•45m•Released
Documentary
A made for TV BBC documentary exploring Jack Donovan's antique automaton collection. The documentary focuses on the toys themselves, displaying their range of movements in plain settings while the narrator weaves stories and comments about them to the synth sounds of library music.
Director
Ramsay Short
Writer
Jeremy Hornsby
Languages
English
Studio
BBC
Cast
Jack Donovan
himself
Gerald Harper
narrator
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