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.
Schultz and Dooley were popular "Spokesmugs" for Utica Club Beer in a long-running series of commercials in the 1960s. These two beer steins have an impressive pedigree; they were built and performed by the legendary Bil Baird and both characters were voiced by Jonathan...
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Cage is a rockabilly single off of Sallie Ford and The Outside's album Dirty Radio. The video was produced by lead singer Sallie Ford's talented father, Hobey...
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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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This is a very ambitious marionette video for the song Modern Times by funk rockers 100 Monkeys. It features some gorgeous-looking marionettes that were made by Alexander Mergold and performed by Scott Land (assisted by Keith Land) as well as some very impressive miniature sets that were built on a tight budget. The video’s director...
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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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Those short films from the 2011 O'Neill Puppetry Conference a couple weeks ago were very popular, so here's another one...The Spy! was directed by Tim Lagasse and shot as part of a Marionette Performance for Film class taught by Philip Hubner....
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I love simple, beautiful, life-like puppetry. Kawasemiza - a Japanese puppetry company that tours internationally - seems to do a lot of that....
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A look at the creative process of Geahk Burchill, founder of The Cast Iron Carousel Marionette...
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This is a new ad that's been running for the past month or so in the UK for Diet Coke featuring three fashionista marionette characters named Eleanor, Bernadette and Irene who "Love It...
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Since I'm currently sidelined with a back injury, this commercial for Robaxacet seemed like an appropriate thing to...
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