Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector 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.
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this is phenominal
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i want that horse!!!!!!
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this is british isnt it?
because you wait, wait, wait, it finishes and isn't funny.
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@caboosefanatic and know this song is gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. ><
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wow it's amazing
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Jeff Dunham better watch out.
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@MythOfEchelon Try me Mr Grammar Nazi.
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@Kousaburo I don't even know where to start with how wrong that statement is. Grammatically as well as factually.
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@kbalynch fag
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Everything else is perfect. These creations are glorious. But when it gets to the rear legs, it all ends.
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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.
pixiebutterflydragon 9 months ago 53
All the computers in the world can never make a charachter come to life like a puppet.
Kousaburo 8 months ago 31