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unusual facts about marionette



Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate

Each year in July and August, the Beilsteiner Märchensommer (“Beilstein Fairy-Tale Summer”) is held, at which the marionette theatre from Cochem produces fairy tales at the winegrowing museum.

Bob Baker Marionette Theater

The puppets danced and pranced around the City Council’s ornate horseshoe-shaped desk in the City Hall chambers before officials voted 14-0 to place the Bob Baker Marionette Theater on the city’s landmark list.

Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, 1960s marionette-based science-fiction TV series

Eszterháza

The opera house was completed in 1768 (the first performance was of Joseph Haydn's opera Lo speziale), the marionette theater in 1773.

Hype Pressure

Similarly, the mention of Muffin the Mule, a well-loved marionette from the early days of the BBC, gets a spontaneous nostalgic cheer of recognition.

International Festival of Animated Objects

Past programming has included Canadian marionette superstar Ronnie Burkett, BC spectacle artists Three on the Tree, Tsimphisan carver Victor Reece, Cirque du Soleil artist Mooky Cornish, Phillip Huber (of "Being John Malkovich" marionette fame), Frank Meschkuleit ("Bride of Chucky", "The Left Hand of Frank"), Calgary's The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Red Smarteez, and Czech group Buchty a Loutky, amongst others.

Jeffrey Daniel

Also in 1984 Daniel appeared in the Paul McCartney movie Give My Regards to Broad Street displaying his signature robotic or marionette-like dancing style (with McCartney, his wife Linda McCartney and members of the band Toto made up as marionettes) to the Wings hit, "Silly Love Songs".

Korean hip hop

Since 2006, Expression crew have been performing a new style of bboying called the Marionette, which incorporated puppet-like movements and was responsible for influencing JabbaWockeeZ crew who have successfully used this style during their performances on America's Best Dance Crew.

Marion K. Sanders

Under the name Marion Klein she was a free lance feature writer for a small news syndicate, as a stringer for The Toronto Star, which published several pieces (November 1925), reviewed books for The Book Review (March 1926), performed minor editorial chores for the Theater Guild Quarterly for which she also wrote a piece (April 1926), wrote several piece for the Chicago Journal under the byline Marionette (May 29, 1926, June 9, 13, 20 and 27,1926).

National Marionette Theatre

The National Marionette Theatre (Czech: Národní divadlo marionet, NDM) is a theater company devoted to puppetry performances, located in the Old Town neighborhood of Prague, Czech Republic.

Rival Threads: Last Class Heroes

Maya (voiced by Kimlinh Tran) - a headstrong noble who controls Sancti, a projectile-based and skill heavy Marionette.

Royal Strand Theatre

The theatre became the Strand Theatre in 1850, and for a while in 1851 was owned by William Robert Copeland, and known as Punch's' Playhouse and Marionette Theatre.

The Girl with the Golden Hair

"I'm a Marionette" was coupled with "Take a Chance on Me", "I Wonder" was paired with "The Name of the Game", and "Thank You For The Music" became the B-side for "Eagle".

Tin-Tin Kyrano

In the original TV series and its original movie adaptations, Tin-Tin, like the other characters, is portrayed using a marionette, and Christine Finn provided her voice.

Yaya Coulibaly

Later he studied art at the Bamako National Institute of the Arts, and puppet theatre at the Institute International de la Marionette in France.

Zozobra

The Zozobra that was burned on September 7, 2007, was certified by Guinness World Records as the largest marionette in the world, measuring 15.21 m (49.11 ft) in height.


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