File puptcrit/puptcrit.0701, message 142


From: WMHSCOTT-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:58:18 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Verna Finly Videos


Brad,
 
The DVD is simply a copy from the VHS original.  I don't have the  ability to 
make improvements in the quality.  Since the recordings were not  made in a 
studio, but seemingly were recorded at an actual instructional  session, they 
do have some limitations and quality issues.  But they have  served well to 
give people the basic techniques. 
 
I contacted the company that distributed them some years ago and was told I  
could make copies because they no longer were distributing them.  I  contacted 
Verna and she gave me permission as well.  I understood she is  now living in 
a retirement community where she teaches the residents to make  puppets.  
There was an article in the Puppeteers of America  journal. 
 
There are copies available on eBay.  Jim and Bonnie Blank had several  copies 
of the VHS tapes they received from the estate of Travis Bowen.   Last summer 
Bonnie told me she was selling them via eBay for $70 a set.   (They 
originally cost $50)
 
The patterns were ones I got when I took a three day session with Verna and  
Mary Ann Taylor sponsored the Greater Philadelphia Area Puppetry Guild.to 
learn  her techniques. I later ordered heranimal puppet patterns.
 
Bill Scott 
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