
Toypunks
2008

9 votes
Oscar Winning documentary short about antique mechanical toys.
Director
Charles Huguenot van der LindenStatus
Released
Original Language
EN
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For those of us who remember when toys were made of paper, or cardboard that intricately folded and unfolded to make designs we could play with, this starts off quite interestingly. Toys were made to augment our imagination rather than to replace it. As this short feature progresses it takes us further from that imagination driven world - from the perspective of the user, and takes us more into the mind of the toymakers as they come up with ever more imaginative ones that had wheels, could be wound up - they could even move on their own. Tin and plastic replaced wood and paper and yet one thin…
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