Back in May and August 2010 Marcelo Melison sent us information about the Spanish ventriloquist Francisco Sanz who also built figures (click here to see those blogs).
Well our good friend Doug Preis sent us information on this video of Francisco Sanz. Funny how we as collectors and ventriloquists think that the McElroy Brothers produced the greatest figures ever.
Last week our good friend Dr. Bob Baker was on America’s Got Talent. If you missed it, here’s a clip:
Yesterday (Friday, July 11th) Steve and JET of The Dummy Shoppe posted a very nice memorial on their blog. I wanted to share it with our readers today.
In Loving Memory…
This week we wish we could come to you with the funny and happy news of the art of Ventriloquism. Instead we are forced to bring you the news of the passing of our good friend and the wife of Dan Willinger, Mrs. Helen Willinger.
For those who don’t know our mutual history, the first time we went to Vent Haven in 2006, we arrived a day and a half before anything started. Once we checked into The Drawbridge Inn, we decided to take a stroll and get a feel for “the lay of the land”.
The title by today’s standards is politically incorrect but this was how the figures of the day when done as a black man were called.
This one is a figure I am very happy to have in the Ventriloquist Central Collection. He is a superb example of the carving technique of Ken Spencer. I love the Spencer figures and have quite a number of them in the collection.
