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23 Mar 2012 I Am Big Bird Documentary

Following the huge success of last year's Kevin Clash documentary Being Elmo comes the news that Sesame Street's Caroll Spinney will be profiled in a documentary currently in production called I Am Big Bird....

22 Feb 2012 Legendary shadow puppeteer Richard Bradshaw in his home theatre (photo credit: ABC Australia)

From Australia's ABC Network comes a brief, but great profile of Richard Bradshaw, one of the funniest and most talented shadow puppeteers in the...

07 Feb 2012 Vietnamese Water Puppet Makers

A great (and rare) look at the men who build traditional water puppets in a small village in Northern Vietnam. This is from a documentary that Italian film student Alessandra Grassi is currently working on. She spent two months in Vietnam in 2011 and if this footage is any indication, her film is going to...

03 Feb 2012 Mary Thornton

I began my career as a professional puppeteer with Famous PEOPLE Players (FPP) a really acclaimed black light theatre company. I spent almost four years there in the late `90s and it was a really remarkable formative experience for me. It's safe to say that not a single day goes by that I don't make...

27 Jan 2012 1983 Interview with Jim Henson

I stumbled across this online while doing some research earlier this week; it's an excerpt from a CBC interview with Jim Henson taped on the set of Fraggle Rock in 1983....

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