The Complete Book of Marionettes

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 forBeauty and the Beast. Over 200 illustrations.

Preface to Puppeteering

1

(9)

Here's How

10

(7)

Types of Marionettes

10

(1)

Choosing a Marionette Character

11

(1)

Equipment and Materials Needed

12

(5)

Head Start

17

(8)

Proportion and Size

17

(1)

Portraying Facial Characteristics

17

(3)

Doing the Modeling

20

(5)

The Papier-Mache Head

25

(9)

Applying the Papier-Mache

25

(2)

Painting the Head

27

(3)

Removing the Clay

30

(1)

Attachments on the Head

30

(4)

Plastic Wood: Its Uses and Technique

34

(13)

Materials Needed

34

(1)

Making the Head Mold

35

(4)

Making the Plastic-Wood Shell

39

(5)

Other Uses for Plastic Wood

44

(1)

Making a Movable Mouth

45

(2)

The Body Beautiful

47

(22)

Proportion and Size

47

(2)

The Cloth-Bodied Puppet

49

(5)

The Jointed Wooden Body

54

(6)

Variations to Add Character

60

(2)

Hands

62

(7)

Wigs--Of All Things

69

(9)

Modeled Wigs

69

(3)

Crepe-Hair Wigs

72

(1)

Crepe-Paper Wigs

73

(1)

Yarn Wigs

74

(1)

Absorbent-Cotton Wigs

75

(1)

Miscellaneous Wigs

76

(2)

The Well-Dressed Marionette

78

(18)

Women's Clothes

79

(2)

Men's Clothes

81

(4)

Headgear

85

(4)

Gloves

89

(1)

Shoes

89

(1)

Hose

90

(1)

Accessories

91

(1)

Miscellaneous Suggestions

92

(1)

Sources of Material

93

(3)

Everything under Control

96

(8)

How to Make the Control

96

(2)

Stringing the Marionette

98

(3)

Extra Strings

101

(1)

The Multiple Control

102

(1)

Storing Marionettes

103

(1)

Let Me Tell You about My Operation

104

(7)

What It Takes to Be an Operator

104

(1)

How to Operate the Control

105

(1)

Using the Puppet's Hands

105

(3)

Walking the Puppet

108

(1)

Sitting the Puppet

109

(1)

Picking up Objects

109

(1)

What Puppets Can and Can't Do

110

(1)

Easy Stages

111

(13)

Planning the Theater

111

(1)

The Proscenium

112

(2)

The Stage Floor

114

(2)

The Puppeteer's Bridge

116

(2)

The Permanent Theater

118

(1)

Stage Decorations

118

(5)

Safety First

123

(1)

Light Magic

124

(8)

Christmas Tree Lights

126

(1)

Low-Voltage Lights

127

(2)

Spotlights

129

(1)

House-Current Lights

130

(2)

Gay Gilded Scenes

132

(13)

The Neutral Backdrop

132

(1)

The Painted Backdrop

133

(1)

Painting the Backdrop

133

(4)

Making Painted Props

137

(3)

Stage Smoke

140

(1)

Underwater Scenes

140

(2)

Transparent Gauze Panels

142

(3)

Apropos of Props

145

(10)

How They Are Created

145

(1)

Props from the Toy Counter

146

(1)

Making Your Prop Authentic

146

(2)

Things to Save

148

(2)

The ``Propeteers'' Workshop

150

(1)

Furniture

150

(2)

Keeping Props to the Minimum

152

(3)

We Go into Production

155

(13)

The Revue

155

(1)

Planning the Complete Program

156

(2)

Selecting a Play

158

(1)

Recording the Program

159

(1)

Instrumental Pieces

160

(1)

``Lovelies''

161

(1)

Original Sketches

162

(1)

Portrait Puppets

162

(3)

Celebrity Portraiture

165

(1)

Adjustment to Audiences

165

(3)

``Beauty and the Beast''

168

(10)

Of Ancient Lineage

178

(5)

Ancient Puppetry

178

(3)

Oriental Puppetry

181

(2)

The Rest of the Story

183

(8)

About Mabel Beaton

191

(8)

Index

199

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The Complete Book of Marionettes

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