The puppets were made one-third life size with the puppeteers on a bridge eight feet above the set.

There were puppeteers, acrobats, theater actors, sword swallowers, snake charmers, storytellers, singers and musicians, prostitutes, and places to relax including tea houses, restaurants, and organized banquets.

Oz was born in Hereford, England, the son of Frances ( née Ghevaert ) and Isidore Oznowicz, both of whom were puppeteers.

By the Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), puppets played to all social classes including the courts, yet puppeteers, as in Europe, were considered to be from a lower social stratum.

Initially consisting of one puppeteer, by 1730 three puppeteers were used to operate each puppet in full view of the audience.

Rather than cast a new puppeteer in the roles of Casey and Finnegan a team of new puppeteers were brought in, including Karen Valleau ( Chester the Crow ), Nina Keogh ( Truffles ), Jani Lauzon ( Granny ), Cheryl Wagner, and later, Ruth Danziger ( Annie ), Jim Parker ( Alex ), and Bob Dermer ( Lorenzo the Raccoon ).

The Howdy Doody show's various marionettes were created and built by puppeteers Velma Wayne Dawson, Scott Brinker ( the show's prop man ) and Rufus Rose throughout the show's run.

Six puppeteers were necessary to make the different parts of the Thor puppet work.

Following the deaths of two of the group's puppeteers, they were limited to brief instrumental background music for years.

In 1979, the main Muppet performers were performing in the bus scene in Muppet Movie the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and extra puppeteers were needed for the Sesame Street float, so Clash got to perform Cookie Monster in the parade.

Two of the main puppeteers were Craig Marin and Olga Felgemacher, who herself was a Sesame Street puppeteer for two years, from 1978 to 1980.

Walton and O ' Rourke ( Paul E. Walton and Michael O ' Rourke ) were a famous team of cabaret puppeteers who founded the Olvera Street Puppet Theatre in Hollywood in 1935.

Older puppeteers estimate that there were at least a hundred shadow puppet troupes in southern Taiwan in the closing years of the Qing.

The Martians ' behaviour and personalities were initially developed while the puppeteers were messing around on set.

Visual effects supervisor Dave Carson described the process of creating Sy and new character Joh Yowza as similar to sculpting clay models, adding that CGI characters were more like puppets than cartoons and that animators " constantly find limitations: characters don't bend right, or their mass isn't right ," problems he claimed that confronted puppeteers.

The shows were performed with two puppeteers, with the assistant operating Smiley, and Hetherington everything else.

Otherwise, video is captured from the perspectives of one or more puppeteers who serve as camera operators.

According to Marino, other disadvantages are the possibility of disruption when filming in an open multi-user environment and the temptation for puppeteers to play the game in earnest, littering the set with blood and dead bodies.

A visit to a Punch and Judy Festival at Punch's " birthplace " in London's Covent Garden will reveal a whole variety of changes that are rung by puppeteers from this basic material and although scripts have been published at different times since the early 19th century, none can be claimed as being the definitive traditional script of Punch and Judy.

* Puppetry – an ancient form where performers / puppeteers manipulate performing objects.

Many of the puppeteers also worked on Sesame Street.

Spielberg ensured the puppeteers kept away from the set to maintain the illusion of a real alien.

It had nearly 200 feet of cable and hundreds of moving parts inside of it, and was controlled by nine puppeteers.

The musical film starred Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene, as well as Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, John Candy, Christopher Guest, and a 15-foot-tall talking plant ( voiced by Levi Stubbs ) which at times required up to 40 puppeteers to operate.

The Quay Brothers ' works ( 1979 – present ) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work.

Leslie Fleming, seen her with her character Bleeckie, is among a generation of puppeteers to focus on the web as a primary distribution point for their work.

Some puppet styles require puppeteers to work together as a team to create a single puppet character.

Jim Henson is one of the best known of modern recent puppeteers who with his associates Jerry Juhl and Frank Oz developed The Muppets for television.

* Lesław Piecka-Polish actor, director, puppet-maker, one of the greatest puppeteers of marionette.

* Jason Segel-He was trained in performing a puppet when he was working on Forgetting Sarah Marshall by Michael Oosterom and the other puppeteers that worked in that movie.

In Taiwan, budaixi puppet shows, somewhat similar to the Japanese Bunraku, occur with puppeteers working in the background or underground.

Some very experienced puppeteers can manipulate their puppets to perform various stunts, for example, somersaults in the air.

The puppeteers, who dressed all in black, would become invisible when standing against a black background, while the torches illuminated only the carved, painted and costumed wooden puppets.

A large rod under the water is used by the puppeteers to support and control the puppets.

The Rajasthani Puppet from India is notable and there are many Indian ventriloquists and puppeteers.

Throughout filming there were mounting tensions between the director and designer Cecil Beaton, but Cukor was thrilled with leading lady Audrey Hepburn, although the crew was less enchanted with her diva-like demands.

The rest of the post-September 1950 cartoons by Famous Studios that were released prior to April 1, 1962 ( except some special releases ) were sold to Harvey Comics, along with all rights to Famous ' characters Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip, et al., in 1958, which were retitled " Harveytoons " for television distribution after 1959 ( beginning with their exposure on Matty's Funday Funnies ).

He gave up a promising football career to marry his love Audrey ( Robin Wright Penn ) after they were involved in an auto accident.

Upon seeing the wreckage, David has a flashback of the car accident he and Audrey were in, it is revealed not only that he was unharmed, but that he had ripped a door off the car in order to save Audrey, a memory he had long repressed.

While she was convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next-door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her début on Broadway that season.

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

The American Civil War, and numerous hurricanes, such as Audrey, Rita, and Ike were defining events that shaped the trajectory of the region.

The airport and hangars were used in Steven Spielberg's 1989 film Always, the final movie of Audrey Hepburn.

Williams ' first wife, Audrey, and his mother, Lillie Williams, were the driving forces behind having the marriage declared invalid and pursued the matter for years.

One of the sculpted clock surrounds, whose figures were modeled using model Audrey Munson, still survives as the Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain in Kansas City, Missouri.

There were six celebrities involved in the game: Kitty Carlisle, Hy Gardner, Audrey Meadows, Cliff Norton, Gene Raymond, and Susan Oakland.

Despite sharp ideological differences, Reform's populism struck a responsive chord with many NDP voters who were dissatisfied with Audrey McLaughlin's leadership and Ontario supporters who were frustrated with the government of NDP Premier Bob Rae.

Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph were replaced as Alice and Trixie by Sue Ane Langdon and Patricia Wilson, respectively, for two sketches.

( and two other men ), and daughter of Sir Thomas Paul Latham, 1st Bt .. Stewart and Audrey were both over age 50 at the time of their marriage, each had separate estates ( his in Wiltshire, west of London, hers in Essex, east of London ), and they for the most part lived separately, but they met in London for dinner each Wednesday.

Among well known semi-permanent British inhabitants were Audrey Good, former commander of the UN refugee bases in Epirus following the Greek Civil War, the late actor Peter Bull ( author of ' It isn't all Greek to me ') and actress Susannah York.

File: Audrey Hepburn in Charade 4. jpg | One of Audrey Hepburn's trademarks were her thick eyebrows.

** Note: Although Edith Head won an Oscar for Best Costumes, most of Audrey Hepburn's " Parisian " ensembles were, in fact, designed by Hubert de Givenchy and chosen by the star herself.

He relocated there in 1949 after his sister Audrey ( who had moved there with her husband ) told him there were few French-speaking attorneys in the southwestern Louisiana community.

TNA staff took four files, along with authenticated copies of the authors ' handwriting, to Dr Audrey Giles, a former head of Scotland Yard's Questioned Documents Unit where she confirmed that the documents were certainly forgeries.