How to Use Marionette Controls

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On behalf of Expert Village. I am Emily DeCola. I am here at the Puppet Kitchen in New York City and were going to talk about marionettes. So things get much more interesting with marionettes as soon as you start to add character just like any other kind of puppet. This is Rufus. Hes another puppet of mine which like most puppets you can understand. You get a good sense for who he is pretty quickly. It's built into his body. Rufus is a string puppet. Hes a marionette. A head and shoulder puppet, as my teacher of Albrect Rosser describes it. Which is a very simple kind of marionette. His head is strung on a 3 point stringing that I described earlier. And he has one other string on his body. Which runs from his shoulders up to the control and then back. It's another running string. Like the running string in the hands of the scarf marionette that I just described. Rufus' is head is attached to his neck with a flexible joint and his shoulders with a flexible joint. And you look it his control its a machine that allows me to pull his shoulders back and up. Relative to his head so hes not just the head and shoulders marionette. Hes a head and shoulders marionette with a little twist.

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