Steve Meltzer sent me an update about the Santa Monica Puppetry Festival.
Click here to see the latest update.
Thanks, Steve for keeping us updating about your festival.
Dan
www.ventriloquistcentral.com
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Steve Meltzer does reeally great work in the video more recently provided, very creative and original.
An idea for future blog: When I look at Marshall’s catalog of ventriloquial figures, and other types of puppets offered, it occurs to me that puppetry in general has a strong connection with pantomime of ancient Greece. I say this because the cast of characters in traditional pantomine is so similar as to that used in punch and judy, and really vent is actually mimetic sound with pantomime movement of puppet in sync when used. It may well be that vent “dummy” as we know it comes from the dumb-shows of mime, and, if so, “dummy” takes on great, historical significance. See, Wikipedia.