I do not even have the bodies anymore, I have like 25 of these hand puppets that I use to act out stories in a puppet theater now. And we are going to talk about puppet theaters in this series. I am going to show you how to make some, I going to have you write if you want to know where to buy some. But there are lot of kinds of puppets and the kind that I should have made a body but I have not used this kind in a long time. The hand puppet that the mouth does not move which this is all right especially if the teacher is on the outside, doing the dialogue or someone is an announcer we call it doing the dialogue for the different heads but it is not as believable when you have puppet’s mouth that do not work. Because you see puppetry and ventriloquism, why it is so fascinating I have learned over the years is because it is an illusion. It is an illusion at this little creatures are talking.
And so, that draws your attention. It sort of like a leprechaun type thing, they are little sometimes they are not always little but, they are unusual looking so for example when we see an unusual looking person you know, a lot of people stare and people say do not stare. It is the same thing with puppets and ventriloquist figures. They are unusual looking, they draw your attention. Like I remember Mister Ed on television being a talking horse which draws your attention already because you usually do not see an animate objects speaking, and so when you see a little piece of rubber or clock speaking, it is draws your attention right away. And then two, puppets and ventriloquist figures are nonthreatening because they are just an object and where people are threatening and they are not. And they tend more to be friends with audience.
Now, through the years puppetry and ventriloquism of course has been not only for children and so many people have said to me how is your little puppet show. And I like to go, because I consider what I do for families, for everyone and that is the way it should be considered., of course, puppets would for children. Mister Rogers but what about the Muppet Show. What about by Barbara Mandrel and the Croft Puppets. And there are so many things now I see on the Comedy Channel on cable. They have got a lot of different things they are doing with puppet so there is a man that stands there, dressed up with little people up in the stage. It is very unusual. And what I want to do would you is to stir your creativity and your imagination. Now just because book says this is puppet show should be done or ventriloquism shows should be done, that does not mean anything. Because the way you do it, if it is successful, there are lot things in this world that has not been invented yet. This is a wonderful world. I had to work for the things that I am going to show in this series. God does not just draw…
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