On behalf of tvlesson.com, my name is Paul Louis. I’m a professional puppeteer and puppet
builder. I think the fascination that people have with puppets is the fact that it brings back
childhood memories. It brings back the days of when you’re young and you would play with
figurines or dolls or you would make them talk to each other. Puppets are basically the same
concept. the only difference is the puppets are able to move a lot better than a doll or a figurine.
Puppet can lip sync dialogue. A puppet when it’s properly manipulated by the performer can
really project the motion. Puppets are universally appealing. they are well respected around the
world. You have famous puppets like the Muppets. every body knows the Muppets and every
body love the Muppets. Why did they love the Muppets? Well they love the Muppets because
first of all the characters are extremely likable. The characters maybe remind us of ourselves or
somebody that we know. They don’t have their distinct personality. I think that what’s great
about puppeteers is that when you create a character and you’re performing that character. That
character becomes its own identity. And even back in the old days when puppeteers would come
in to town and do a little puppet shows like Punch and Judy. Punch the character Punch was a
hand puppet. It was a very, very distinct personality type of character. And so you have all of this
individual personality in puppets just like people. and I think that is pretty much a universal
appeal that everyone has with puppets because we can identify with some of this characters. And
when they’re cute that sure helps like the Muppets and like other characters.
Now you have all different types of puppets you have Marionettes, you have Ventrally Quistals,
you have hand and rod puppets, you have hand puppets, you have finger puppets. A puppet can
really be anything. If you put a, lets see, a handkerchief on a string and start bouncing it around,
it suddenly becomes a ghost. So puppets can really be any object that is moved by a performer.
Any object that is given life by a performer. Puppets have been around forever I mean there were
traces of puppets that were found in the pyramids of ancient kings in Egypt. So puppets have
been around for a while and they’ll going to be here to stay obviously. Puppets had been a big hit
on TV with the Muppets and with Coocoo Friend and Ally, Bill Bairds, Mary Ants. Films like
Team America World Police so puppets are pretty cool. and if you have a discovered puppeteer,
I would advice you to put a puppet on your arm, talk to it, you’ll make you feel a lot better. On
behalf on TVlesson.com this has been Paul Louis, thank you for watching.