With rubber head and all my puppets were like that. I used to create like paint on rubber heads and that is what they look like until I changed them all to cloth heads that I just showed you. Well working with people and puppets I want to be outside of the puppet theater. Eyeball to eyeball with the audience. Now to me as I studied from 25 years puppetry and ventriloquism, people separate them all the time. And I really do not think they should separate because they are both an illusion and it could use the same characters. So I really, I am going to consider both things as I teach in this series. I am going to teach you how to make the puppets, how to make a puppet theater and I have various puppet theaters and how to make stuff toys into puppets and ventriloquist figures. I am going to teach you how to make commercial patterns into puppets.
And then ventriloquist figures like Raggedy Anne and Raggedy Andy and so many things that you are going to want to be tuned during this series. Well, what you got to remember is this, “nobody has the corner on the truth in anything, and that you should look yourself in various places”. My best teacher in the whole wide world has been the book, a book, any book. If you do not have any money to buy books, go to the library. There are libraries and look up puppetry and ventriloquism look it up in the encyclopedia to start with to see. You see the history of puppetry goes way, way back. I mean hundreds and hundreds of years ago when they used to have traveling puppeteers that would carry their equipment and puppets from town to town and made set up on high, the puppet theatre up high in the air.
And people would come; they did not have television of course or any kind of entertainment at that time. So that was that they would do. And punching duty shows, in England it just a 300th birthday in the 60’s and they had been puppet popular puppets for years. So puppetry is not a new thing and ventriloquism is talked about in the bible. Let me see besides the library there are are all kinds of magazines. You know, look in the children’s sections or The Muppets magazine I do not know if I have all the issues that they had. I know what “Sesame’s Street” now. But anyway, watch “Sesame’s Street”, my children were little and we all would sit down and watch it together.
And I learned so many voices from watching them. When you hear cartoons voices, go watch them with your children, your grandchildren or your neighbor children or go watch them by yourself. And imitate the voices tape record them a little bit if you have to play them over and over again. I do show on this series called the voices, accents, and dialects that you would not want to miss because that was we talk about. Records and there is so many things, there is a lot of books. And if you will write to me, I will send you a list of different books. So as you can be the puppeteer that is really good with a lot of ideas puppet place with the point. That know how book of puppets. There are all kinds of puppet books. If your library does not have them I can tell you the addresses where you can get them.
Now after I have – like I said I got a little bit tired of puppetry by itself, I wanted to be out where I could see the people. I can hear them laughing and I had a screen that you could see through. I am going to teach you how to make puppet theatre in one of the shows that you can see the audience and read your script on the back of screen. That is really exciting I know you are going to like that with that with your teacher or whatever your children. Anyone would like to do this. And to entertain people, then I got this record Jimmy Nelson’s Instant Ventriloquism. With Danny O’Day and Farfel that I got see Jimmy Nelson on chastening showboat here in Michigan a few years ago. When I sent him pack of the things that I done and told them that I had learned originally from his record. You do not need a teacher, you really even do not need me I just point you on the right direction. There are all kinds of records and all kind of courses. If you asked for the different courses that are available, addresses when you write to me and we will get to the address of the end of the show.
Then, I will send a free listing. I also would like to include a free copy of my life story in many versions. As I said I can help problems and I have written a book called the but I have good news for you but I like to send you a free shortened version of my life so you get a little bit of an idea of what I have been through. And where I have come from, and I really should be dead today because I my health has been so bad on and I am so excited to be live and you should be excited to be alive too because it really is a wonderful place to be in this world. And we could it even better with the things that we are going to be doing that your people up.
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