Toys in a shop window come to life and visit a poverty-stricken little girl as she sleeps. She awakens to find that her shack has been refurbished and that the toys are about to throw her a party.

Tom Armstrong
United States

Is it worth your time? If you like vintage, grainy oddities where things just happen without much logic, maybe. If you need a plot that actually goes somewhere, stay far away. This isn't really a movie so much as a weird, musical hallucination that someone captured on film in the 1930s. The whole thing starts with a g...

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Lloyd Ingraham
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"Is it worth your time? If you like vintage, grainy oddities where things just happen without much logic, maybe. If you need a plot that actually goes somewhere, stay far away. This isn't really a movie so much as a weird, musical hallucination that someone captured on film in the 1930s. The whole thing starts with a girl living in a shack that looks like it might collapse if you breathed on it too hard. Then, suddenly, dolls start dancing. It’s the kind of logic only a pre-war short film could ..."

