Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom

Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom

45 mins | Documentary | Dec. 24, 1976

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.

Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom

45 mins | Documentary | Dec. 24, 1976

Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom
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.
Producers BBC
Original title Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom
Directors Ramsay Short
Writers Jeremy Hornsby

Cast

Jack Donovan

as himself

Gerald Harper

as narrator