Monthly Archives: January 2014

This was sent in to us from Bob Abdou: Hey Dan and Steve, Found this great article from the 1954 Puppetry Journal Festival printed 60 years ago:

I have never had nor have I seen a ventriloquist figure that had fingers or thumb that moved by way for any controls. As matter of fact I actually think that might be a rather hard thing to make function … Continue reading →

All of us in the ventriloquist world love Jerry Mahoney as a character and in our minds we always picture Jerry the way Paul Winchell redid him with his heavy eyebrows and heavy eye liner. But this picture (above) shows … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote a blog about the pivot point of a ventriloquist figure’s mouth and Bill Matthews asked for a picture or diagram. Our good friend Greg Claassen (author of McElroy Magic) sent us this page out of his book … Continue reading →

It really is amazing how bad some figure makers did when it came to placement of the mouth in the figures head and how the mouth palate worked once done. A great example of how not to do a mouth … Continue reading →