Puppetry
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Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets, the inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by
Punch & Judy puppet show at Swanage, Dorset, England
A wayang golek wooden puppet performance in Indonesia
Chinese shadow puppet (Beijing style)
Chinese stick puppets
Marionette
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A marionette, or string puppet, is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated w
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…familiar examples. Other hand or glove puppets are larger and require two puppeteers for each puppet. Japanese bunraku puppets are an example of this. Marionettes are suspended and controlled by a number of strings, plus sometimes a central rod attached to a control bar held from above by the puppeteer. Rod puppets…
Ancient Greek terracotta puppet dolls, 5th–4th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Howdy Doody, famous US television marionette.
A display of marionettes used in Supermarionation television series such as Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons at the National Media Museum in Bradford, United Kingdom
Traditional Burmese commander-in-chief marionette