Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:57:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Richardson <zenchops59-AT-yahoo.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Destruction of Puppets


 No Rolande.... you didn't see an earlier blog posting I did about evacuating. I filled up my car with my lifetime collection of shadow puppets, my dog, and a stage tied to the roof.
  That's one of the nice things about wayang puppets.... 500  pieces  ( 2/3rds my original designs ) can fit into a Honda CRV. tell you what... you really find out what "stuff" you care about !
   
     Michael

Rolande Duprey <puppetpro-AT-aol.com> wrote:
  I believe more puppets have been destroyed by fire than anything else 
in history (mostly due to the tinder boxes that were theatres).

Kungsholm...New England Marionette Theatre...Bennington Marionettes...

Michael lost so much in Katrina...

What are other stories about how puppets have been destroyed?

Rolande



On Feb 7, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Alan Cook wrote:

> The largest amount of classic celastic I ever saw in a puppeteer's 
> possession was at Frank's house---after the Howdy Doody payoff, for 
> tax reasons, it made sense to buy as much puppet-making material as 
> possible in that same year. When Frank moved to North Hollywood that 
> celastic moved wih him and was stored in his garage, where sad-to 
> report it deteriorated and ultimately was trashed.
>
> While Frank lived in that historic haunted house in NYC, he had to 
> travel to Ringling Brothers headquarters in Florida to teach the 
> circus Rope Girls how to work miniature Rope Girl Marionettes made 
> by Jack Shafton in Los Angeles. As it happened, I did most of the 
> neoprene pouring in Jack's plaster molds for those marionettes while 
> Jack was in Europe on a business trip (about a possible use of 
> puppets in a touring Ice Skater Show).
>
> While Frank was in Florida a group of riff-raffs broke ino his NYC 
> home, lived there as squatters, and to keep warm, burned marionettes 
> and puppet books in the fireplace and caused other damage. Just a 
> reminder that being a puppeteer is not always easy.
>
> ALAN COOK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Morse
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2008 4:46 AM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Frank Paris video on youtube
>
> Whoops! Pardon my redundant info, Rolande. I should have read ALL 
> last
> night's posts before replying.
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Rick Morse
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:44 AM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Frank Paris video on youtube
>
> Rolande, though your question about Frank Paris's home wasn't 
> addressed to
> me, I'll jump in and hope Alan won't mind my presumption.
>
> Frank's address was 12 Gay Street in the Village. The house is, if 
> I recall
> correctly, a three-story townhouse built in the 18th century. You may
> already know Frank's house was reputed to be haunted and was written 
> up in
> several books about ghosts. (Believe It or Not!)
>
> In October 2001, when Bob and Judy Brown's daughter Krista was 
> married at
> the Sullivan Street Theatre in the Village, we males were banished 
> for a few
> hours in the morning while the ladies prepared for the wedding. Bob 
> took a
> few of us (including Pady Blackwood) on a walking tour of the 
> Village and
> made sure we saw Frank's former home. I remember standing outside it
> somewhat awestruck, taking in the house's classic architecture and 
> imagining
> Frank living and working there. Another memorable stop on that 
> walking tour
> was Bil Baird's former theatre on Barrow St. This Midwesterner was 
> quite
> impressed!
>
> Rick Morse
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org 
> ]
> On Behalf Of Rolande Duprey
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:49 PM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Frank Paris video on youtube
>
> Alan,
> I was in NY's West Village recently, and passed by some town houses
> which looked like one that Frank Paris bought with the proceeds of the
> Howdy Doody suit....
> Do you (or anyone) happen to know the exact address?
> Rolande
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Alan Cook wrote:
>
>> If you check this one on youtube, note posted comment from Scott
>> Land, one of our best marionette performers.
>>
>> There was a copy of this little movie in the audio-visual collection
>> of Puppeteers of America.
>>
>> It was made pre TV for a movie jukebox, I guess in 1940s. You
>> plunked in a quarter (25 cent coin) and on a small screen watched a
>> rear-projected image.
>>
>> If the film were front-projected on a standard movie screen, the
>> letters and images were seen in reverse or mirror image.
>>
>> Scott Land mentions that for the film, they painted Frank's hands
>> black. (First they wanted him to wear black gloves, then cut the
>> tips off the glove fingers, but full tactile contact between the
>> marionette strings and the puppeteer's hands was necessaty for best
>> results .)
>>
>> The first variety number is bicycle rider. Frank worked on occasion
>> with Red Skelton noted American comedian who starred on radio,
>> movies & TV.
>>
>> It was Red Skelton who suggested to Frank that he should do a
>> marionette bike rider act.
>>
>> Frank found an antique miniature bike, I think in an English shop,
>> which was said to have been used in a French circus, either by a
>> clown or a midget. He bought it circa 1940.
>>
>> It has been exhibited by me in a number of galleries and museums
>> over the years.
>>
>> ALAN COOK
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rolande Duprey
>> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 8:36 PM
>> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
>> Subject: [Puptcrit] Frank Paris
>>
>> Something for fans of Frank Paris:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0u6sfuO-Y&feature=related
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