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Toys

Grant Munro · Canada · War / Experimental / Stop-Motion · 7 min · 6.5K views

Directed by Grant Munro · 1967

At Christmas, children gaze at a shop window full of war toys that suddenly come to life and play out a brutal battle.

A classic NFB anti-war short that makes toy soldiers genuinely unsettling.

This stop-motion animation takes a dark look into the war toys often given to children at Christmas time. Starting off as harmless objects, the toys quickly take on the gestures of real soldiers, mimicking the actions an

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