Toccata for Toy Trains

Toccata for Toy Trains is a 1957 short film by Charles and Ray Eames, one of several films (including Powers of Ten, made many years later) the husband-and-wife design team made during their career.

[2] It was inspired by the gift of a toy locomotive given by Academy Award-winning director Billy Wilder.

The film features mostly antique toy trains moving within fanciful settings to a toccata.

Other antique toys, such as dolls (representing passengers and townspeople), automobiles and horse-drawn carriages are featured.

Eames says the modern era has lost the art of toymaking in the attempt to have "a perfect little copy of the real thing".