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ISBN
9780486440170

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486440176
ISBN-13
9780486440170
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44461010

Product Key Features

Book Title
Complete Book of Marionettes
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Puppets & Puppetry, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Crafts & Hobbies
Author
Les Beaton, Mabel Beaton
Book Series
Dover Crafts: Dolls and Toys Ser.
Format
Perfect

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-043055
TitleLeading
The
Edition Description
Unabridged edition
Table Of Content
1. Preface to Puppeteering 2. Here's How Types of Marionettes Choosing a Marionette Character Equipment and Materials Needed 3. Head Start Proportion and Size Portraying Facial Characteristics Doing the Modeling 4. The Papier-M'ché Head Applying the Papier-M'ché Painting the Head Removing the Clay Attachments on the Head 5. Plastic Wood: Its Uses and Technique Materials Needed Making the Head Mold Making the Plastic-Wood Shell Other Uses for Plastic Wood Making a Movable Mouth 6. The Body Beautiful Proportion and Size The Cloth-Bodied Puppet The Jointed Wooden Body Variations to Add Character Hands 7. Wigs--Of All Things Modeled Wigs Crepe-Hair Wigs Crepe-Paper Wigs Yarn Wigs Absorbent-Cotton Wigs Miscellaneous Wigs 8. The Well-Dressed Marionette Women's Clothes Men's Clothes Headgear Gloves Shoes Hose Accessories Miscellaneous suggestions Sources of Material 9. Everything under Control How to Make the Control Stringing the Marionette Extra Strings The Multiple Control Storing Marionettes 10. Let Me Tell You about My Operation What It Takes to Be an Operator How to Operate the Control Using the Puppet's Hands Walking the Puppet Sitting the Puppet Picking up Objects What Puppets Can and Can't Do 11. Easy Stages Planning the Theater The Proscenium The Stage Floor The Puppeteer's Bridge The Permanent Theater Stage Decorations Safety First 12. Light Magic Christmas Tree Lights Low-voltage Lights Spotlights House-Current Lights 13. Gay Gilded Scenes The Neutral Backdrop The Painted Backdrop Painting the Backdrop Making Painted Props Stage Smoke Underwater Scenes Transparent Gauze Panels 14. Apropos of Props How They Are Created Props from the Toy Counter Making Your Prop Authentic Things to Save The "Propeteers" Workshop Furniture Keeping Props to the Minimum 15. We Go into Production The Revue Planning the Complete Program Selecting a Play Recording the Program Instrumental Pieces "Lovelies" Original Sketches Portrait Puppets Celebrity Portraiture Adjustment to Audiences 16. "Beauty and the Beast" 17. Of Ancient Lineage Ancient Puppetry Oriental Puppetry 18. The Rest of the Story 19. About Mabel Beaton Index
Synopsis
Absorbing, entertaining guide provides all the information needed to construct puppets and puppet theaters, including valuable advice on making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing, manipulating the puppet, setting up and furnishing a stage, lighting scenes, and building miniature pieces of furniture. Complete script for Beauty and the Beast. Over 200 illustrations., This absorbing and entertaining guide provides all the information needed to construct puppets and puppet theaters. Written by professionals with a passion for their art, the detailed and comprehensive manual contains suggestions for making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing. Entire chapters tell how to manipulate the puppet, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and even how to build miniature pieces of furniture. A production chapter gives advice on incorporating music, putting on sketches, parodying current celebrities, and arranging programs. A complete script for "Beauty and the Beast is included., "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal Marionettes, those beguiling, animated little actors on strings, have endeared themselves to puppet show lovers for generations. Constructed to approximate most nearly the movement and appearance of humans and animals, the jointed figures appear today in a variety of places -- in the theater, motion pictures, schools, and even as an advertising medium. This instructive and engaging guide, written by professionals with a passion for their art, provides everyone from beginners to veteran performers with all the information needed to create these beloved figures and the stages on which they perform. Enhanced with more than 200 sequenced photographs and diagrams, the comprehensive manual contains valuable advice for making heads, bodies, wigs, and puppet clothing and includes entire chapters on how to manipulate the puppet, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and even how to build miniature pieces of furniture. A production chapter tells how to incorporate music, put on sketches, parody celebrities, and arrange programs. There's even a complete script for Beauty and the Beast , as well as a section on the history of puppeteering., How to construct and manipulate puppets, build little theaters, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and more. Over 200 illustrations.
LC Classification Number
PN1972.B35 2005

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