- Overview
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.
- Release Date
24 December 1976
- DirectingRamsay Short
- Budget
$0.00
- Revenue
$0.00
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