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TELEVISION • Classic Japanese TV Series • • Puppet History on PBS • •Tv Puppeteer Interviews • P FALL 2001 Issue $5.95 NTERNATIONAL TELEVISION • Classic Japanese TV series • • Puppet History on PBS • •Tv Puppeteer Interviews • 0 (4470 87 Center for Puppetg Arts & Interact with International Leaders of Puppetry We are expecting a large number of professional puppetry artists as well as presenters andfestival organizers from 55 pupiets .*4(7 .I countries. Space is limited to 350 ri SO REGISTER EARLY! 2002 June 20 - 23,2002 Center for Puppetry Arts Featuring: •AMERICAN SHOWCASE FESTIVAL with performances from all over the USA and Canada •UNIMA International's biennial conference with news on puppetry activities worldwide All sessions will be translated into English, French and Spanish •UNIMA-USA SYMPOSIA Hear top professionals in the field •MUSEUM EXHIBITS Winner's Circle: Ten Years of UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence Posters International: A Puppet Perspective PUPPETS: The Power of Wonder, the Center's interactive exhibit For more delails contact: •INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE: Shop The World! PUPPETS 2002 1404 Spring Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 30309 404.881.5110 Fax: 404.873.9907 Center 44*petry BIREJELD N Email: [email protected] \*/~ MA Itt INN ~~]~ ATLANTA Website: puppet.org Arts 9*114 ' .„m.........,„. Editor Andrew Periale HC74 Box 307 ~UPPETRY INTERNATIONAL Strafford, NH 03884-9622 [email protected] the puppet in contemporary theatre, film & media Designer/Assistant ~ditor issue no. 10 Bonnie Periale Editorial Advisor The Editor's Page 2 Leslee Asch SPECIAL FEATURE Book Review Editor PUPPETS on TELEVISION John Bell Media Review Editor Donald Devet Eric Jacobson by Donald Deret G Advertising Kathryn Mullen. Michael Frith b)'Donald Devet 10 Mallory Smith [email protected] Japanese TV 4)' Michiko Ueno-Herr. 14 Distribution Jim Henson 's Doodles by Andrew Periale 16 Carol Epstein-Levy Kathee Foran Working With Shari by Nikki Tilroe 17 Advisors The American Puppet b)' Andrew Penale . 20 Vince Anthony Cheryl Henson ALSO Liz Joyce Stephen Kaplin Toone Theatre b), Cynthia El)'ce Rubin 22 Mark I evenson Mark Sussman The State of the Art: Two Perspectives Hanne Tierney Michael Malkin A Plea for High Stand:irds br Robert Rogers , 26 Ptippetry ftiternational \5 a· publication of Art : Sometimes « I)own & Dirty' by Stephen Kaplin 28 UNIMA-USA. Inc., American Center of the UNION INTERNAl'IONALE de la The UNIs 30 MARIONNETTE (known as "UNIMA'). Twist's Petrouchka by Hanne Tferney 32 Board of Directors, UNIMA-USA, Inc. Founding President JIM I IENSON Urals Festival by Stephanie Green 34 President Randel McGee Carol Epstein-Levy Kathee For:in James Hawkins Lynne Jennings Karen Konnerth 1~ Cosmo Allegretti, puppeteer and designer r~ V for «Captain Kangaroo" Miclielle Myers Bob Nathanson David Smitll UNIMA-USA i p oduction Assistance MarianneSteven Widerman Tucker c/o Center for Puppetry Arts Terrie Ilaria, STEINWAY STUDIOS Ex-Officio Board Members 1404 Spring Street. NW Kittery, ME General Secretary Vincent Anthc,ny* Atlanta. GA 30309 USA P Lililications Andrew Periale 404-873-3089 ETHOS Marketing & Design Bonnie Periale [email protected] Portland. ME Consultants & I.eslee Ascii *Councilors Cheryl Henson* Alle]11 Kiirten ON THE COVER: -,0,/I/~ Michael Nelson Japanese Television: .21* Roman Paska* Hyokkori Hyotanjima I.ia Powell NATIONAL ©NHK ENDOWMENT Lisa Rhodes (see article on page 14) FOR THE ARTS Bart Roccobcrton* This project is supported, in part, by an award Nancy L. Staid* ©2001 - UNIMA-USA from the National Endowment for the Arts. Wel) Guilt Dc,nald Devet 2 PUPPETRY INTERNATIONAL Editor's Page iii11 lilli 11 When I was born, television- still an enormous boxy affair with a smallish black and white picture tube- had not yet permeated American culture. My parents bought our first color set in the summer of 1968 so that we could watch Olympians compete, their skintones ranging from metallic green to glorious bubblegum pink. VHF "rabbit ears" were augmented by a UHF "hoop," until cable made antennas obsolete for most Americans. Now TV is truly ubiquitous in our culture. Large screen, pocket-sized, and now the promise of high-definition TV arrives just as high-speed, broad-band internet may make TV as we know it irrelevant. More simply put: my parents grew up in a world without television. I grew up with TV as a constant influence. while .44'4** my nieces and nephews may already be looking beyond television. All this in 50 years! ---4 1 . The term "television" was first used in 1907 in Scientific 15 Ame rican magazine to describe the transmission of pic- - tures. John L. Baird gave the first demonstration of a \ television system in England in 1925. In 1927. Ameri- K 1**4'91"'L.,7 can inventor Philo T. Farnsworth applied for a patent *a, and, with Vladimir Zworykin, broke television free from the limits of the mechanical scanner by creating an all electric system. The wonders of television were intro- ZL- - duced to a broader public at the 1939 World's Fair in an exhibit sponsored by the Radio Corporation of America ~ ~ (RCA), which then owned NBC. Although invented and -, 'el 4 demonstrated prior to World War II, television is essen tially a postwar phenomenon. There was a limited tele- 1:._ vision viewership in the U. K. in 1936. and in the U.S. 8. and former U.S.S.R. in 1939, but regular network tele- ./- 40 vision began in 1946. In 1948, fewer than 2% of U.S. homes had television sets. But from that point on, it swept lili lili PUPPETRY INTERNATIONAL 3 The first artist to really create work for this new the country. Perhaps that is because it appealed to the medium (rather than simply moving theatrical puppetry populace's most pressing postwar desire- from the bridge or castelet to the small screen) was Jim to be left alone.* Henson [ see review of Jim Henson's Sketches and Doodies ... page 161. From a five minute daily spot on local TV, Through it all, from the early experimental models to his Muppet Show was eventually seen in 108 countries. the birth of the commercial networks, public television, Broadcast technology moved swiftly around the cable and satellite, puppets have been there: entertaining, globe, with network television beginning in 1946. Regular educating, parodying, satirizing, cajoling and, of course, programming involving puppets was established in Canada "selling soap." (1947), Czechoslovakia ( 1953), Luxembourg (1957- exported to France in 1965), Germany (1953) and Japan One of the first artists to begin to create programming (1956). P/ #10 takes an affectionate look at puppetry on for television was Burr Tillstrom, creator of the popular television. While we don't have enough pages to cover the and brilliant Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Beginning in 1947. subject exhaustively, we do hope to shine a light into a few this show was performed LIVE and much of the mate- dark corners of this vast subject. Media Editor Donald Devet weighs in with two rial was tailored and adjusted in response to fan mail. exciting interviews- Eric Jacobsen of Disney's House of Kuk/a. Fran and Ollie was .joined by other pioneering Pooh [ page 61, as well as Kathryn Mullen and Michael Frith, the creators of Between the Lions [page 10]. Michiko shows of the time, including Puppet Playhouse Theater, Ueno-Herr introduces us to one of her favorite Japanese TV later retitled Howdy Doody, which ran from 1947 - 1960. shows growing up [page 141. Nikki Tilroe remembers Other significant programs featuring puppets were The working with Shari Lewis [page 17]. Your editor reviews Paul Wine+tell Show, Captain Kangaroo, Andy's Gang, the Mazzarella Brothers' new documentary on the history of puppetry in America [page 20]. The Bunins' Foodini the Great, and Bil Baird's Life with But wait, there's more: Brussels' Toone Theater, a festival in Snarky Parker. The proliferation of variety shows of- the Urals, and a review of Basil Twist's Petrouchka. fered additional venues for puppet guest appearances on shows such as Ed Sullivan. Jack Paar and' Sid Caesar. Read on, MacDuff! -Andrew Periale Both the Spanish entertainer Sefior Wences and the little Italian mouse, Topo Gigio, made regular appearances *All quotes, as well as information about the early days of on The Ed Sul/ivan Show. television, are from Leslee Asch 's as yet unpublished article, "Puppetry in Television." ~ OPPOSITE ~ 28*~ Captain Kangaroo and Bunny Rabbit ~ TV puppetry by Gerry Anderson ~ Robert Homme and friends from the program The Friendly Giant PUPPETRY INTERNATIONAL PI# 9 Revisited A number of readers responded to our "Propaganda" issue. Tue, 24 Apr 2001 Andrew, The spring issue of "Puppetry International' is Dear outstanding. I have always considered myself Editor Periale: quite well read in puppetry but the information We should like to on "Puppetry in Post-Revolution Indonesia," "The PROPAGANDA add some information issue to the articles on puppetry issue which was the Forgotten Yun Gee" and to date. a niost interesting in German and American (1930's) propaganda At three P of A Festivals were new topics to me. the PUPPET (1994, G UILD 1995 and 1998) "60 Years OF LONG you for your hard work. of Puppets ISLAND performed Thank and Politics." Using the original Dorlis Gnibidge covered scripts and social puppets. years :ind political the play of the 30's issues from through the the depression the topics covered present scene. were Some cold war, McCarthyism, Medicare, desegregation, of 1:inding on Vietnam, racism, the the moon. and the The audiences were played most receptive their role in and puppets about making important again life around us. statements Our Guild is proud and Politics. to have been a part of Puppets Sincerely yours, Carol Fijan, Puppet Guild of Long Island -39 - Your Editor, Andrew Periale, and Designer, Bonnie Periale.
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