File puptcrit/puptcrit.0810, message 426


Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:40:50 -0700
From: "Steven Barr" <lapuppet-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] you tube Hamlet


These Rod in Head are the original marionettes- String Puppets. They later
put stings on the heads to get more subtle  head movements but it slowed the
overall walk--- and projected puppetry into the modern marionnette that is
very limited in its movements. The Rod in the head allows an immediate
movement-- and it is very cool. More primative but cool. The French call it
a marionnette a tringle  as opposed to marionnette a fils (string puppet). I
don't know if it should be named here in America so it doesn't become a
"type". Because it belongs to that Hybrid Family of Puppets which defy
labels and lean on invention and proto-type. I love this style of Puppet.
Check out the film trailer at: www.classicsinminiature.com
and see them used in a stylized film.
cool,
steven Ritz- Barr

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>wrote:

> Very cool puppets, who made them?
>
> Cool movements! Who performed them?
>
> I love the wide movements of dances and chases!
> Makes me want to build this type of puppet.
> What's the official name of the rod-in-head with strings? For now, I heard
> a
> lot of people call them czech puppets, but it's probably a vague
> designation. Czechs must build all sorts of puppets!
>
> The performing possibilities and the sturdyness are very appealing to me.
>
> Cool shots.
> Were they filmed at the indoor carroussel on Water street in Brooklyn,
> almost under the bridge?
> I happened to walk there while on my trip last week-end. Cool place!
>
> I think I exceeded my daily usage quota of the word "cool".
> But I'm cool with that.
>
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to make images as puppet theatre can at it's best."
-Dr. Kathie Folie, Univ. of Cal, Santa Cruz Theatre Chair and Professor

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