The quality of the footage in this YouTube playlist isn’t great, but it features the highly regarded Stephen Mottram demonstrating some beautiful, remarkably life-like marionette manipulation...
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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
I somehow missed Frank The Fruitcake over the holidays, but it's...
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Did you know that Joe Wright - the director of Pride and Prejudice and The Soloist - is the son of John and Lyndie Wright, who founded the historic Little Angel Theatre in...
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The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre tackles the ongoing financial crisis in the...
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Perky The Turkey is the star of The Sun Newspaper's new ad campaign in the UK. He's featured in a series of commercials as well as print and radio ads for a promotion called Sun Perks that allows loyal Sun readers to collect points that can be traded for free Christmas...
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Every Bomb You Drop is probably the most famous of the Spitting Image musical parodies and was one of the most poingent segments that the show ever produced....
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Back in 2005 The British Film Institute hosted a special tribute to the series that included a panel discussion with several members of the Spitting Image creative team, including co-creator Peter Fluck, voice artist Steve Nallon and puppeteer Louise Gold....
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The Margaret Thatcher puppet was undoubtedly one of the biggest stars of Spitting Image and as a deeply conservative Prime Minister, one of the show's favourite targets. This is one of the show's best Margaret Thatcher...
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Nothing was sacred to Spitting Image, least of all religion. My God Is Bigger Than Your God was probably one of the show's most pitch perfect musical satires and it is just as relevant today as the day it was...
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The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre takes aim at the recent London...
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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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When I first saw Keaton Henson’s video for Charon I thought “Huh, that puppet looks a lot like Jonny Sabbagh’s work,” which makes perfect sense because (as I later found out) it is Jonny Sabbagh’s work. Jonny’s done a lot of interesting stuff over the years; check out all of the previous posts about his work...
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