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In The Marionettes, "the dramatis personae are of universal character, almost myth-types;" as Yarshater explains. [9] They include Hero, Demon, Girl and such other types as Black Man, Merchant, Poet, etc. and of course the puppeteer is ever present. The central theme is the perennial fight between Hero and Demon.
"Marionettes, Inc." is a short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in Startling Stories (March 1949) and later reprinted in his collection of short stories The Illustrated Man. In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's ...
A marionette (/ ˌ m ær i ə ˈ n ɛ t / MARR-ee-ə-NET; French: marionnette [maʁjɔnɛt] ⓘ) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. [1]
Muriel Lanchester (28 October 1902 - 11 October 1992) was a British ceramicist and co-founder of the puppet theatre company, the Lanchester Marionettes.Lanchester and her husband, Waldo were the first British people to appear on French television, as part of the World's Fair in Paris in 1937. [1]
Its half-hour showing time is divided into two marionette segments, one dramatizing Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and one telling the story of the Nativity. [1] The live-action part of the film features Alexander Scourby, who narrates and also plays Clement Moore in the Visit from St. Nicholas segment.
The Le Roy Brothers Marionettes was one of the acts that did from television's "The Toast of the Town" [6] (aka: The Ed Sullivan Show) Season 2 Episode 47 aired on August 6, 1950, [7] had their own network TV show "Sandy Strong" sponsored by Ovaltine, [8] and was on "The Mickey Mouse Club" [9] Season 1 in 1955 [10] With the transition to TV ...
Funeral March of a Marionette (French: Marche funèbre d'une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents .
The first and last sections present a live-action marionette show, where some very subtle character movements are demonstrated. For the 1953 motion picture Lili, they performed using hand puppets rather than the marionettes for which they were most famous. Walton & O'Rourke made the puppets; George Latshaw manipulated Carrot Top; Wolo Von ...