CinemaOSMovie · 1976 · 0h 45m

Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom

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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.

Directed byRamsay Short

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 45m
Language
EN
Released
December 24, 1976
Studios
BBC

Featuring

Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring

Jack Donovan

himself

Gerald Harper

Gerald Harper

narrator

Creative team
Directed by
Ramsay Short
Written by
Jeremy Hornsby

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