It was an OK account of Gilberts early years. But the movie was full of omissions and mistakes. They made NO mention of his two daughters at all. They had him retrieving unsold Erector sets at the beginning of the movie at a time when cars did not exist. This is too early as he did not invent Erector until 1913, and cars were well established by then. They never mentioned the name of the company, Mysto Manufacturing. He actually started out with magic, and they showed him doing some tricks, but neglected ALL of that part of History which lead up to him getting into toys and Erector in the first place. His home was wrong, he had a Tudor style home. If you really want to get pickey the electric fans in the factory were late 40's vintage. Further, A.C. was a tall skinny man, and Jason Alexander didn't even come close to his physical make up as he is shorter and pudgey. Of course the movied ended well before A.C. approached Coleman about American Flyer so all we got as train fans was a brief mention at the end that he later got into toy trains. Nice story, but lacking a lot.
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