The Muppets take their parody trailer campaign to it's logical conclusion, while some minor controversy brews about their new...
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Traditional Taiwanese Puppetry - http://puppetvision.info/2013/06/traditional-taiwanese-puppetry.html
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Youkiza is a 380 (!) year old Japanese Puppet Company - http://puppetvision.info/2013/06/youkiza-a-380-year-old-japanese-puppet-company.html
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The Hampster Dance returns and is highly adorable (UK)
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Punch and Judy Sign
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Creepy Punch
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Punch and Judy Cone Puppets
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Giant puppet engineering
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Effective ad reminding hockey parents to calm down
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Although the independent feature film Bunraku has little or no connection to puppetry, its brilliant opening titles are filled with it. The sequence takes the audience from the creation of the earth, to the dawn of human civilization and up to the present day. A key theme in the titles is the increasingly rapid development...
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Constance Marks’ documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (see previous post) has been a huge hit on the film festival circuit. It’s won a number of accolades, including a special jury prize at Sundance and numerous audience awards at other festivals. The film explores Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash’s childhood fascination with puppetry and traces his...
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As the hype machine for The Muppets’ new movie (see previous post) heads in to full gear, Muppets Studio has launched the Muppet Fan-A-Thon. Miss Piggy kicked it off last week with a campaign for a bazillion “likes” for the new movie on Facebook. Once that happens – or presumably once they get sufficiently close...
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Here's the latest parody trailer for the new Muppet Movie. It spoofs The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and includes some new, previously unseen footage from the...
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Star Wars is coming to Blu-ray on September 12th and as we've come to expect, it's arriving with a few new tweaks. one of the most extensive is the replacement of the animatronic Yoda puppet in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace with a new CGI...
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Richard Butchins has posted an update of sorts about his planned documentary about legendary British puppeteer Frank Mumford and the Mumford...
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The Smurfs opens in theatres today here in North America. Deborah Glassberg and James Wojtal Jr. designed and built these marionettes of Papa Smurf and Smurfette for one of the film's opening...
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Award winning documentary maker Richard Butchins was attending a party last January when he made the acquaintance of an older gentleman named Frank. Over the course of their conversation Frank casually mentioned that he “used to be in show business a bit,” and revealed a cupboard full of old cans of film. Richard eventually realized...
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After teasing Muppet fans with trailers spoofing romantic comedies, Green Latern and The Hangover here’s the “official” trailer for The Muppets, the new Muppet movie scheduled for release later this...
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Jodie Foster's long-delayed film The Beaver finally debuted this weekend. It stars Mel Gibson as Walter, a depressed middle-aged man on the verge of losing his family who heals himself thanks to a discarded beaver handpuppet he finds in the...
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This clip from Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi provides a glimpse of how one of the original Star Wars trilogy's famous aliens, Admiral Ackbar, was brought to...
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