Investment Dolls
Antique dolls can be worth a lot of money. Collectors pay huge sums of money when the age, brand, and condition are right. Some people even go so far as to consider dolls as an investment. For collectors of figurines, […]
Puppets on Radio and Screen Part 2
Puppets on Radio and Screen
Finger puppets
A finger
puppet is a sheath of rubber, cloth, or paper that sits over just one finger
and is animated by wiggling. It typically has no moving parts and is often used
as a toy. Around 1950, Howdy […]
Puppets on Radio and Screen
Puppets on Radio and Screen
While we’ve looked at puppets in both film
and television, here we’re going to look at puppets in their wider content in
popular culture, this time encompassing radio We’re going to begin all the way
back to the 1930s […]
Puppets on Television Part 2
Alf (1986-90)
While, on occasion, an actual human being has worn the ALF costume, the loveable alien was largely operated by voice actor and creator Paul Fusco. After arriving from the planet Melmac, ALF was transformed into an ‘80s popular culture […]
Puppets on Television Part 1
Any television production requires a lot of help, but it’s only a few that have been brave enough to rely on puppets as the face of the show. Whether they were made of socks, wood, rubber, foam, or felt, puppets […]
The Center for Puppetry Arts – Part 2
Awards
The Center was chosen by the Ford Foundation as one of 28
national organisations acknowledged for its successful innovative and
management programmes. The Center was awarded grants on three separate
occasions by the Kresge Foundation, in support of the Center’s capital
campaigns.
The 1996 […]
The Center for Puppetry Arts – Part 1
The Center for Puppetry Arts, founded in Atlanta in 1978 by
a gentleman by the name of Vincent
Anthony, is North America’s largest non-profit dedicated to puppetry. The
venue, which has won numerous awards, today offers distance learning
programmes, classes, workshops, the Nancy Lohman […]
The Muppets and Muppeteering – Part 2
It isn’t easy to keep things in perspective and calls for some out-of-the-box thinking. Sets that show just Muppets are typically “Muppet-size”, while sets with human actors could either be man-size or a combination of the two.
The Muppets and Muppeteering – Part 1
A big announcement was made in July of 2007 that the international press soon caught wind of.
Puppet Shapes – Part 3
The screen
The screen is where the puppet moves, and from where the audience is told a story. There are numerous shadow screen types, with each juggling several key factors.
