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A marionette in use in Japan, 2018. 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]
The company originally started making "Waloukas", simple wooden toys held together with string. [2] Bob then moved on to making marionettes to sell to children, a new direction as previously marionettes had only been made for professionals. On 14 October 1948 the company changed its name to Pelham Puppets to reflect the change in focus.
Yoke thé and puppet master. Yoke thé (Burmese: ရုပ်သေး; MLCTS: rupse:, IPA: [joʊʔ θé], literally "miniatures") is the Burmese name for marionette puppetry. . Although the term can be used for puppetry in general, its usage usually refers to the local form of string puppe
Kathputli is a string puppet theatre, native to Rajasthan, India, and is the most popular form of Indian puppetry. [1] Being a string marionette, it is controlled by a single string that passes it from the top of the puppet over the puppeteers. [2] Putli meaning a doll. Kathputli means a puppet which is made entirely from wood.
The Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum of Palermo operates in the field of national and international, traditional and contemporary puppetry.. Founded in 1975 by the Association for the Conservation of Popular Traditions, it houses a vast collection of over 5,000 pieces, including marionettes, hand puppets, shadow puppets, and stage machines from all over the world.
The museum displays a collection of thousands of marionettes from different countries and cultures worldwide. There are therefore many different types of puppets in the museum, which also vary in movement techniques (e.g. string puppets, hand puppets, water puppets, bunraku style puppets, shadow puppets, etc.). There are contemporary puppets in ...
It is difficult to establish when and where the Opera dei Pupi was born. "The chronicles say that the initiators of the Opera in Palermo were Don Gaetano Greco (1813–1874) and Don Liberato Canino, while in Catania they were Don Gaetano Crimi (1807–1877) and his antagonist Giovanni Grasso (1792–1863)". [5]
The characters were played by electronic marionettes with a moveable lower lip, which opened and closed in time with pre-recorded dialogue by means of a solenoid in the puppet's head or chest. The productions were mostly science fiction with the puppetry supervised by Christine Glanville , art direction by either Bob Bell or Keith Wilson , and ...