Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom

The story

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.

Cast & crew

JD

Jack Donovan

himself

Gerald Harper

narrator

RS

Ramsay Short

Director

Paul Samwell-Smith

Music

JE

John Else

Cinematography