Puppet Styles

An Introduction to Puppetry

Drama 136California State University

Professor Kim V. Morin

Definitions

•What is a puppet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paE2buG4quQ

Definition for PUPPET (Dr. Jan Loring)

•“Embodiment of a concept animated for

an audience by a puppeteer

•The term “puppet” is a generic term for

any animated figure

•“Pupa” latin word for “Doll”

PUPPET (George Latshaw)

•A form to be animated

•A person to do the animating

•A method of control that uses all or part

of the puppeteer’s body, or an extension

of it through rods, strings, wires, light,

magnets, technology, or a combination

of these.

PUPPET (Bil Baird)

•Inanimate object

•Made to move through human effort

•Communicates thought or feeling to an

audience

BRAINSTORM!

In small groups:Make a list of puppets and puppet characters you have seen…

They can be from commercials, movies, television, or in person

Can’t think of the name? Describe it!

“How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.” Kermit the Frog

Puppets of Bil Baird The Lonely Goatherd from

The Sound Of Music

http://youtu.be/7_PJPDMXHOw

Earn a Star!

PUPPET CATEGORIES

Puppets Are Generally

Categorized By How They Are

Animated

4 CATEGORIES

•DIRECT

•INDIRECT

•REMOTE CONTROL

•COMBINATION

DIRECT

•Puppeteer has direct

contact with the puppet

with all or part of his

body

Categorize!

What types of puppets are DIRECT?

Which of the ones you listed are DIRECT?

DIRECT Finger Puppets

DIRECT - Finger Puppets

•Finger

puppets are

often used in

classrooms.

DIRECT - Hanimals

DIRECT:Traditional Hand

Puppets

•Head and arms

•Mouth does not move

“Kukla” by Burr Tillstrom

Try the hand position!

DIRECT:Traditional Hand Puppets

Mr. Rogers and

King Friday

DIRECT:Traditional Hand

Puppets

•Punch and Judy

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“Potter Puppet Pals”

DIRECT: Hand Puppet

with Moveable Mouth

Bear in the Big Blue House

http://youtu.be/enwSyQo8d7k

DIRECT: Hand Puppet

with Moveable Mouth

Between the Lions

http://youtu.be/2BV8OBj0FZE

DIRECT: Hand Puppet

with Moveable Mouth

Puppeteer Shari Lewis

and Lambchop made the

sock puppet famous!

DIRECT: Hand Puppet with

Moveable Mouth

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DIRECT: Hand Puppet with

Moveable Mouth

•Sock Puppets

DIRECT: Hand Puppets

Kukla, Fran and Ollie

by Burr Tillstrom

DIRECT Body Puppet

DIRECT Body Puppet

DIRECT Masks

DIRECT Masks

INDIRECT

•Puppeteer controls the puppet

through an extension such as

rods or strings

Categorize!

What types of puppets are INDIRECT?

Which of the ones you listed are INDIRECT?

Pinocchio

INDIRECT Stick or Rod

INDIRECT Stick or Rod

Puppets from India

INDIRECT String Puppet or

Marionette-- Pinocchio

http://youtu.be/J7Y5L1W27X0

INDIRECT

String Puppet or Marionette

•Saltzburg Marionettes

INDIRECT

String Puppet or Marionette

INDIRECT

String Puppet or Marionette

It’s Howdy Doody Time! A famous marionette on TV.

INDIRECT

String Puppet or Marionette

Direct TV – Wires are UGLY!http://youtu.be/Qy8rubPxnC0

INDIRECT

Shadow Puppets

http://youtu.be/z_l8YUAr_DU

INDIRECT

Shadow Puppet from Java

Wayang Kulit is a

ritual puppet show

that lasts 8 hours!

Indirect: Shadow

•From an earlier classmate!

INDIRECT Larger than Life or

Processional Puppets

INDIRECT Processional

Puppets Macy’s Day Parade

These

Puppets

were first

created by

the

puppeteer

Tony Sarg in

the 1920’s!

COMBINATION

•Uses a combination of

methods to animate

puppets

COMBINATION Muppets

Kermit is a

combination

Hand and Rod

Puppet!

COMBINATION

LeBron and Kobe Nike Commercials

http://youtu.be/MP-p9i85sNc

COMBINATION

Wheat Thins Commercial

http://youtu.be/Fiss5LcjfuA

COMBINATION

Bunraku from Japan

The puppeteers are always visible in Bunraku

COMBINATION

Bunraku in Classroom

COMBINATION

Ventriloquist Dummies

This is

Charlie

McCarthy.

Edgar

Bergen

made him

famous in

the ‘30’s!

COMBINATION

Ventriloquist Dummies Today

Ronn Lucas -

And of course - the infamous Jeff Dunham!Click here for YouTube Video

REMOTE CONTROL

•Operator initiates action

that activates the puppet

mechanically

REMOTE CONTROL PUPPETS

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

REMOTE CONTROL PUPPETS

Jabba the Hut

REMOTE CONTROL PUPPETS

E.T.

REMOTE CONTROL PUPPETS

Yoda

Do you know who

the voice of Yoda

is?

From a former Fresno State Student!

The Adventures of Zeet Nagley

Fandango Video Clips

•Fandango Twins

•http://youtu.be/X7PV68YlaP0

•Fandango Interview

•http://youtu.be/yrZUSMAXKGQ

•Fandango Music Video

•http://youtu.be/gPwzI9zfjZU

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FANDANGO PUPPETS

What type of

puppets are

these?

THE END!