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TREASURE CHEST OF

HOBBY-CRAFT

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BY 5 T E P P I C T U R I Z E D 5TEpBT

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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

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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.

A.

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.