I have no idea what the oldest puppet troupe in the world is, but surely the Japan's 380 year old Youkiza Puppet Troupe is a serious contender for the title....
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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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This is a clip from the special features of Oz the Great and Powerful that offers an expanded look at the use of the practical China Girl marionette that was performed live on set by Philip...
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It's thrilling to hear about the resurgence of Burma, but traditional Burmese puppetry - a centuries old tradition - is struggling to...
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Le Squelette Joyeux ("The Happy Skeleton") by Auguste and Louis Lumière is one of the very first ever puppet...
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Half Cut Tea - a web site "dedicated to finding the artists behind their art through short documentary videos" - recently shot this profile of L.A.-based puppeteer Jeff Speetjens....
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Ain't It Cool News has been doing a series of interviews from the set of the The Great and Powerful Oz. One of the interviews features Master marionette puppeteer Phillip Huber, who performed an 18 inch tall marionette version of the film's "China Girl" character on...
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A trailer for an upcoming documentary about the Puppet Barge in London, one of the world's most unique puppet...
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Here in the West we don't often hear much about Russian puppetry, which is one of the reasons I'm intrigued by the work of Nikolai Zykov, who regularly uploads videos of his work to his YouTube...
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Jerry Pulls The Strings is a classic puppet film that was produced for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair featuring the puppetry Rufus and Margo...
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A great piece of marionette puppetry by Honey Goodenough, developed under the guidance of Marionette Master Phillip...
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This clip from the 1937 film Artists & Models is a puppet production number created by the famous illustrator, scenic designer and puppeteer Russell Patterson. He dubbed the tandem strung marionettes that he created for the film "Personettes" and they're one of the earliest examples of puppetry being used prominently in a feature-length Hollywood...
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Not too shabby...a Pinocchio marionette riffs on Michael Jackson at puppet shop in...
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