Here’s a video showing ventriloquist Bill Podgorny’s figure he named “Albert”.
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It is a shame there’s nothing about the maker other than he was 20-30 and worked an old Capitol movie theater. Perhaps there is something some place, inside the head, arms or legs, to throw some light on his influences, other than Bergen. He is bound to have seen inside the head of one made by another because the jaw action is too good. The hands on the figures are similar, so I’d say he made a lot of them. His figures would be very recognizable as a Harold Hines figure.