File puptcrit/puptcrit.1001, message 405


Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:10:03 -0500
From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Is stop-motion puppetry? Sure.


Well Alan thats just not fair because I respect your opinion so, if you told
me the kitchen sink is puppet, I'd have to agree.  So unless anyone has
anything else to say on the matter I will let this topic sleep....... for a
while.  I'm going to go do the dishes.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> wrote:

> It never felt like I was doing anything but puppetry when working on Art
> Clokey's DAVEY & GOLIATH. It was a low budget undertaking. Each animator
> worked alone on a specific scene on his own set area. The puppet movements
> felt like actual time---just that it was done in slow-motion. The more the
> animator felt that way, the more spontaneous the ultimate moves were
> onscreen. The classified advertisemen in the Pasadena Star-News "help
> wanted" section tha got me that job was listed under "Puppeteer".
>
> Ray Peck was on the Clokey Staff when I worked there. Back in New York, he
> had aimed for a career as an actor, and in between, worked with a marionette
> company (possibly Suzari).. That string puppet training made his stop-motion
> work in Glendora CA possible.
>
> With CORALINE and FANTASTIC MR FOX, as a viewer I got that same sense of
> immediacy and spontenaity that I get from live puppets---but of course, with
> those films there was a lot of technical enhancement (the equivalent of
> hiding  marionette strings or control rods.). Both directors of those plush
> films have spoken about the puppetness of stop-motion. Don Sahlin, who
> stop-animated filmed segments for Sesame Street segments, and also worked
> for George Pal also understood the puppetness, and Bob Baker who worked on
> Pal's Puppetoons and still runs the longest-running puppet theare in Los
> Angeles does too. I don't need further arguments to convince me that
> UNIMA-USA is correct in including stop-motion as a puppet catgory along with
> string-puppet, shadow puppet, rod puppet.....
>
>
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