Atlanta Georgia Tourist Attractions

MALE 1: Georgia like the city Atlanta, it’s the state capital. Centennial Park, a land mark and legacy at the Olympic Games is recognized world wide. The community continues to run the Olympic high, the games brought to town. The center for comers for the region, the city has been in an explosive growth cycle since will before the Olympic Games held here in 1996.

Year two, International Head Quarters for CNN, a company that forever change the delivery of television news. Perhaps, the most significant land mark in Atlanta is Stone Mountain in Grant Park. The worlds largest mass of expose granted over 583 acres in surface area 825 feet high, the center piece of the park on the north face of Stone Mountain, another world’s largest, a vast relief sculpture, depicting three heroes of the confederacy, resident Jefferson Davis, General Robert D. Lee, and Lt. General Stone Wall Jackson.

For those not from the South, the war between states may not ring with the great deal of clarity, however, in the south it’s a different story.

Atlanta was the heart of the confederacy, a period of history indelible on the memories of many years.

MALE 2: Good afternoon, welcome to the CycleRama. What you’re about to see is the world’s largest oil painting. In this CycleRama was the way they told up story before they have films. In our painting is about the battle of Atlanta that took place here in July of 1864 in the painting was actually done 20 years after the battle 1885 86 time frame an it weights about 10,000 pounds, if 400 feet long, 50 feet high and as you’re going to see its theater in the round, as you rotate around through the battle you’ll be highlighted with the computerize narration in music, sound effects as you rotate through history. But this is now the finest remaining CycleRama in the world, it was free here in United States, it was about a dozen in Europe. And a few scattered around the world but world wide maybe 20 paintings still excess, this is the finest one. At one time this painting sold for $11,000 of auctioned, today it’s valued to approximately $25 million.

Male 1: Another unique institution in Atlanta, the Center for Puppetry Artist. The largest none profit in institution devoted the property in the United States. There are two theaters, two different shows, 15 performances running six days a week thrilling audiences old and young.

Bobby Box: A puppet is a figure that is animated to make it appears looks it’s though it’s alive. What we do is essentially, willingly full the audience is believing that things are living and some of this our part is presented in such way to make it easy for the audience and it’s unease’s to take what is happening on stage and to transfer it an view it with life.

Raey Kaplan: I like puppetry in that it’s an extinction of theater it’s an additional tool that you can use to create an illusion on the stage that you not be able to crate with just actors around that’s kind of my big interest in acting.

Michael Haverty: Yeah, great. When you have puppets there are already just sort basic symbols of things you don’t have to think about their emotions are, what this person is playing as rule is because they are the rule man nothing else. And also just performing here is I just count my blessings every morning.

Raey Kaplan: It’s wonderful to be able to have that kind of affect on kids, you don’t often get enough to you come the light here there and you really get into it in an age where it’s instant gratification with so much media and really feel it like you connected to it piece of life and then I’ll get that often and it’s really amazingly to be a part of that.

Michael Haverty: I think it’s—especially in the states its kind a got a stigma there that it’s only for kids but that extremely useful when you’re performing puppet shows for adults because they go into it almost becoming children and so they’re completely wide open to in a wonder, into just experiencing on this things and a much open wide and I think people go to adult theater.

Raey Kaplan: And it’s interesting that this country is one of the only counties in the world that Stigma applies fro puppetry is part is only for kids. Puppetry started for adults, you know back in 800 AD in Asia and all over the world there’s very, very strong puppetry for an adult audience and it’s growing in this country. And you can see it broad way and it’s starting permanent to be adult catches on.

Male 1: In the larger theater Mighty Bug is an entirely different puppet program. However both performances illustrate the infectious enthusiasm, the puppeteers bring to their art.

Female: I play for a butterfly who is mighty bugs girlfriend, Liela and she is a radio star in bug Ville. And it’s kind of about 1940’s flavor trough the out the piece of things a little jazz sort a number. And there’s another World War II go get them motifs and this has become of work at the end of the bugs fight the bad bugs so. And the kids really get into it, it’s very energetic and they love the big energy of mighty bug because mighty bug is a shadow then it can have larger shadows of the bigger bugs, you know, give him one big punch and they fly on a frame, so very cartoonesque. With sound effects and the giant shadow screen kind a gives you effect of panels of the cartoon and you’re moving trough this adventure of mighty bug.

Female: As of the fact that with puppets you dot necessary have to play type because nobody can see what would like. So you can be whatever you hold in your hands on. This is just has little bit different because it has costume characters trough it here, we’re obviously, other male or female for different kind of genders but like, I could play an onion and I have in different genres you know. I could play an elf, I almost to six foot woman so I would never get cast as an elf but in this I could be an elf. So, it’s really great to get to get to the explore all the different ranges that you can have.

MALE 3: I just love to hear the sound of the kids, just screaming at something we do that they think is funny and just having a great time and for this show we’ve getting cheers and stumping in there sits because they are so excited at the end of the show and when we come out it’s just like “yehey!” and I love it so much fun.

MALE 4: And as Spencer and I are in the swing shapes so were not in costume, the kids never see us at all; we’re at the back behind the scene the entire time. But Spencer and arrows were back their manipulating and were not doing in puppets; we’re getting things ready for the next scenes that when they come back off stage, they are not there out front but at the backstage, slinging puppets around too.

MALE 3: You see what is to be interesting to see none of them costume, actually getting down the floor and doing some of the puppetries is really interesting to watch and I’m the narrator, that’s my main character for the show “Sniby, you here me” and I have to play couple of the characters and I don’t think that Julia said is you don’t have to, because the show she can play all kind of different but some reason I get cast there’s a lot female characters so I do play grandee water spider in this and I can say why but I love the effect that I can do that because I’m determine to play Anne Frank.

MALE 4: That would be a perfect role for you I think.

MALE 3: You think that was my way I’m flying.

MALE 4: See now, when would Spencer ever had the chance to play Anne Frank except in puppet theater, it’s a wonderful thing.

MALE 3: Exactly!

MALE 4: It is.

MALE: I love you. Oh you so. Oh you’ll closer. It’s so sweet.

MALE 4: We have a new character in the show now. Okay fine.

MALE 1: In addition to the performances they an extensive museum featuring puppets of all kinds. Here to, children workshops and distant learning classes.