Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse

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Uploaded by on Mar 30, 2011

http://www.ted.com "Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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  • when we see a cloth characiture of person sitting on a man's lap, we know it's a puppet with his hand up the back. Yet watching this, we see a HORSE, with men animating him. The puppeteer is part of the show, the wonder of how alive they come.

  • All the computers in the world can never make a charachter come to life like a puppet.

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  • this is phenominal

  • i want that horse!!!!!!

  • this is british isnt it?

    because you wait, wait, wait, it finishes and isn't funny.

  • @caboosefanatic and know this song is gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. ><

  • wow it's amazing

  • Jeff Dunham better watch out.

  • @MythOfEchelon Try me Mr Grammar Nazi.

  • @Kousaburo I don't even know where to start with how wrong that statement is. Grammatically as well as factually.

  • @kbalynch fag

  • Everything else is perfect. These creations are glorious. But when it gets to the rear legs, it all ends.

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