| Bear
in the Big Blue House |
Review
panelists said:
"Charming and imaginative with a believable bear body puppet
interrelating with a blue mouth puppet mouse and other creatures.
The mouth sync is flawless. The animated moon caught my heart.
It's like a big rubber ball with moving mouth and blinking eyes.
It has lots of songs and a script designed to teach simple lessons
like "don't be afraid of thunder" and "be brave one minute at
a time," as the moon suggested. A primitive silhouette shadow
puppet sequence in each episode tells a short story, something
children could imitate at home. The gentle simplicity of this
show, taking place in the safe environment of a home, exudes
loving and caring for the younger child."
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Mitchell
Kriegman and The Jim Henson Company |
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| Between
the Lions |
Review
panelists said:
"Magnificent sculpted Lion mouth puppets are the main characters
of this program, designed to encourage reading and improve verbal
skills. The puppeteering is outstanding. There is a bust of
the library's founder with moving mouth and a variety show with
black light effects, so that feather boas, gloved hands, and
moving lips extol syllables. . . . The library set and exterior
model would do Carnegie proud. This is a serious but entertaining
educational program." |
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Judith
Stoia, Michael Frith, Christopher Cerf, Norman Stiles Carol
Klein, Michele McDonough |
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| The
Book of Pooh |
Review
panelists said:
"State of the art fusion of modernized Bunraku/tabletop-style
performing with 3-D interactive computer graphic sets, fed live
to puppeteers as they work. All this technology aimed towards
realizing sweet, traditional characters in a setting rife with
references to the literature. Traditional Winnie the Pooh and
friends confront their daily challenges in the Hundred Acre
Wood, which is actually a pop-up book." |
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Mitchell
Kriegman, Shadow Projects |
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| Illuminata |
Review
panelists said:
"Roman Paska's exquisite puppetry invaluably sets the stage
for director John Turturro's motion-picture homage to acting.
Roman's breath-taking puppetry adds immeasurably to a lovely
film, serving as a brilliantly designed and manipulated abstract
fulcrum, integral to an intelligent study of live actors and
their craft." |
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John
Penotti Greenestreet Films |
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| Pets.com
Sock Puppet advertising campaign |
Review
panelists said:
"Absolutely retrograde design and performance adds up to timely
commentary. A very rough sock puppet dog, horribly performed,
comments on: humanity, pets, puppetry, civilization . . . very
funny. For example, a sock puppet reacts in horror at Christmas
time upon seeing his sock brethren "hung by the chimney with
care." |
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Shawn
Lacy Tessaro HKM Productions |
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