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Marionette Collection

Background imageMarionette Collection: Music cover for Two Marionettes Polka

Music cover for Two Marionettes Polka, composed by May Ostlere. Two puppets (without strings!) are depicted dancing on a small stage, framed by red and gold curtains

Background imageMarionette Collection: Filming Thunderbirds

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Background imageMarionette Collection: Filming Thunderbirds

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Background imageMarionette Collection: Filming Thunderbirds

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Background imageMarionette Collection: Indian Puppet Show for European Children

Indian Puppet Show for European Children
Kaut-pootlies, or Puppets exhibited by Native Jugglers, for the amusement of European children. (Plate 18 of 20). Date: 1813

Background imageMarionette Collection: Tony Sarg and one of his dancing marionettes, 1928

Tony Sarg and one of his dancing marionettes, 1928
Tony Sarg (regarded as Americas puppet master and one of his dancing marionettes, 1928 Date: 1928

Background imageMarionette Collection: Tony Sarg in his workshop and a group of his favourite

Tony Sarg in his workshop and a group of his favourite marionettes, 1928 Date: 1928

Background imageMarionette Collection: Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction

Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Background imageMarionette Collection: Shakes Versus Shav by George Bernard Shaw

Shakes Versus Shav by George Bernard Shaw
Promotional postcard for Shakes v Shaw, a ten-minute puppet play by George Bernard Shaw. First produced at the Lyttleton Hall, Malvern, 9th August 1949 and Riverside Theatre, Festival Gardens

Background imageMarionette Collection: Victorian Puppets

Victorian Puppets
Three Victorian puppets on a miniature stage, with all the props (aspidistra, piano, piano stool etc) necessary for a period melodrama. Date: 19th century

Background imageMarionette Collection: The shoe bears A marionette play The shoe bears A marionette

The shoe bears A marionette play The shoe bears A marionette
The shoe bears A marionette play. Poster for presentation of The shoe bears at the Sioux City Art Center, showing stylized heads of three bears. Date between 1936 and 1941

Background imageMarionette Collection: Grotesque puppeteer

Grotesque puppeteer
A rather grotesque and gigantic puppeteer performs a lewd puppet show for an equally lewd looking audience of considerably smaller people. Date: 1919

Background imageMarionette Collection: Fall / Welsh Springer / 1934

Fall / Welsh Springer / 1934
CHAMPION MUSKETEER O MATHERN AND MARIONETTE O MATHERN Owned by Downes-Powell. Head study. Date: 1934

Background imageMarionette Collection: Boy performing with small puppets

Boy performing with small puppets
Undated coloured illustration of a boy performing with small puppets watched by a gentleman with two ladies, entitled " Les petites Marionettes". HPG/8/2/1 (xxx)"

Background imageMarionette Collection: Street Puppeteer & Dog

Street Puppeteer & Dog
A street musician with dancing dog and two small marionette puppets attached between a peg and his knee

Background imageMarionette Collection: Orphanage Boy & Puppet

Orphanage Boy & Puppet
A boy in an orphanage plays with a marionette

Background imageMarionette Collection: 18th Century Marionette

18th Century Marionette
A marionette of the period of Louis XV


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