TREASURE CHEST OF
HOBBY-CRAFT
BOOK DUUIX
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CONSTRUCTION OF CONTROL STRINGING AND MANIPULATION OF
MARIONETTES
MARIONETTE HOBBY-CRAFT With screw eyes, weights, glue and strings, in the following pages, our Marionette becomes alive with action and through its control and strings, obeys our every touch of manipulation, and dressed in its new costume, it is ready to perform.
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BOOK
STEP
(MASTER DETAIL
MARIONETTE CONTROLS
CLOWN JUGGLING
STRINGING YOUR MARIONETTE
TRICKS, MAGIC, ILLUSION
THE MARIONETTE SWING
STAGE PROPS AND ACTION
POSTURES FOR MANIPULATION
COSTUMING
GESTURES IN MANIPULATION
PATTERNS
SPECIAL USE OF STRINGS
MARIONETTE BAG
CONTROL PRACTICE
FIVE CHARACTER SKETCHES
ANIMALS, INSECTS, BIRDS
READY TO PERFORM
Copyright 1937, by Treasure Chest Publications Inc. New York, N. Y. PRINTED
IN
U. S.
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Helen Fling, author of Marionette Hobby-Craft, is well known for her research, performances, writings and lectures about construction and display of Marionettes.
She served
her apprenticeship under masters of the theatre and puppeteer field and under her magic touch of knowledge these quaint figures, with their jointed bodies, grotesque expressions and incredibly
human gestures, seemingly become
alive. Charles Forbell, illustrator of Marionette Hobby-Craft, with his back ground of newspaper experience, in days when happenings were diagramatically explained and his sketches and cartoons for Judge and Life magazines, has accomplished a picture visualization in these books that give us every thing except sound effects. Treasure Chest Publications Inc.
MATERIALS NEEDED FOR CONTROLS
1 piece of lattice wood 10" x 1" x %". 1 piece of lattice wood 7" x 1" x YA". 1 piece of lattice wood 9" x \" x %". 1 piece of leather Y\" wide and 7" long. 3 small screw-eyes. 1 inch of yi" doweling for the hanging of the foot-bar. Glue—tacks. The tools needed. A coping saw, ]/$" drill, vise, file, pliers, hammer, brads, sandpaper and a light rope. 3 pieces of lattice wood 9" x yi". 1 piece of lattice wood 7" x %". String (See Page 7). 3 screw-eyes. Glue. The tools needed are the same as for the two-hand control. Be sure to dove-tail the cut for joining of the cross pieces. The slot in the end of the pieces must be small enough to hold the string firm before wrapping it around the notches. / The strap is for the purpose of hanging your finished marionette when it is strung ready for use. The screw-eye underneath the control is for the running shoulder strings. , ' The two small screw-eyes on the front of the control are for the running hand strings. All parts must be sandpapered smoothly for neatness and to prevent the catching of strings on any imperfections.
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STRINGING A TWO HAND CONTROL
1. Shoulder string, is a continuous running string. 2. Head strings. 3. Back string. 4. Hand strings are continuous running strings. 5. Foot strings.