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Its permanent collection of over 2,500 puppets from all over the world includes marionettes, glove puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, body puppets, and stage materials. In addition, the Institute houses the Puppeteers of America ’s Audio-Visual Collection, which is the largest media collection (over 700 items) on puppetry in the United ...
A push puppet consists of a segmented character on a base which is kept under tension until the button on the bottom is pressed. The puppet wiggles, slumps and then collapses. Push puppets are usually intended as novelty toys, rather than as part of professional puppet theatre.
The show deconstructs and demonstrates Johnson's lifelong obsession with the art of ventriloquism. The show is a Valentine, not only to the art, but also to his mentor and friend Arthur Sieving, who created Johnson's first professional puppet. The show is aided and abetted by a cast of ventriloquated characters, including his Soap alter ego, Bob.
The WH range, the same size as JC puppets except these tended to have larger heads and were the first to have printed faces. The Vent range, a simple ventriloquist puppet, made from 1968 onwards. Pelham Puppets also made puppets to order for the professional market, used by various companies in their shows.
Beginning in 1964 and running through 1978 Margo Lovelace Visser moved her traveling puppet company from an unheated warehouse in the neighborhood of East Liberty into a garage at 5888-1/2 Ellsworth Ave. in Shadyside, and converted it into a 100-seat intimate theater space. This was the realization of her lifelong dream of owning and operating ...
Paul Fusco created the character in 1984 using an alien-looking puppet, that he used to annoy his family and friends. Bernie Brillstein was approached to see Fusco's audition with a puppet character but was initially uninterested, having managed Jim Henson for years by that point, and regarding Henson as the best puppeteer in the business.