The majority of the storylines of Kukla, Fran and Ollie involved the group of puppets planning and rehearsing for stage shows and plays.
As I've mentioned often, I love Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (and Mortimer Snerd). The only other that equals them for me is Burr Tillstrom and Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
This is my first Throwback Thursday post here. I love retro nostalgia, especially 1960's - 1970's, and am excited about adding a blogging day dedicated to memories from the 1960's, 1970's, and probably 1980's, too. Do you remember Fizzies? This was a candy tablet that you dropped into a glazz of water. It fizzed and made a carbonated drink. I never was a huge fan of soda, but for some reason I loved Fizzies as a kid. Fizzies were first created in 1956 by the Emerson Drug Company, the inventors of Bromo-Seltzer. In the 1960's, they were sweetened with Cyclamates. Cyclamates were banned by the FDA in 1968 and they were no longer produced, although they were still on store shelves until the 1970's. I remember Fizzies as a little girl in the late 1960's. I recall liking orange and grape. I had no idea that Fizzies were still around, but they are still made: Fizzies site. Who knew?! I enjoyed visiting the site and remembering this childhood treat.
It seems like almost everytime I go to a garage sale I see an old-fashioned meat grinder for sale. You know one of those hand crank ones for making your
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So as of late I've found myself fascinated with the puppets, marionettes, and things with strings. Part of this recent obsession stems from a show I saw last summer in L.A. featuring the work of John Frame, a very very very inspiring exhibit. That was not the only source of my inspiration, however. For many years I have dreamt of creating fortune telling automatons such as Zoltar. Here's a odd fortune telling machine I came across on Coney Island...Granny knows best...I think I like Zoltar better....duh! Granny sees...an little boy fetching her a nice cup of tea... Here's a groovy one I found in Oaxaca, Mexico: Another inspiration was the automated window displays made by Baranger company. The largest collection of Baranger displays is located in Wisconsin at the amazing House on the Rocks, which also houses oodles and oodles of other machine operated people, places and things. Here's a little video I made last year when Katherine Engen and I visited that palace of Pandemonium. Last Summer Andrea and I visited the Marionette Museum in Lisbon. Pretty nifty. They had a very nice collection of marionettes from around the globe. One of the more interesting displays was the Vietnamese Water Puppets. The stage is actually waist high deep pool. This type of puppetry is different because the mechanisms come from below as opposed the traditional strings from above. But perhaps the most inspirational thing was that silly B.B. gun game in front of the Oaxaca City cemetery during Day of the Dead. Shoot the target and the puppets start to dance....a normal thing to do in front of a graveyard. So finally I have embraced my inner-puppeteer....though, I still hate Kukla, Fran and Ollie (that show gave me the willies). deMent-triloquisms and Mixed Media PupetryI have begun with simple talking heads based on Mexican Dia de los Muertos. They can even carry a tune...sort of... And for those of you who know the ever enduring tunes of Eduard Khil here is a remixed version of his masterpiece Trololo: And of course these led to the more complex Spinny Headed Super Freak: Currently I am working on this strange little dude Despite the prominent lower jaw, ironically his mouth will stay shut and most of the motion will come from his arms and legs. Well...since I'm in a toy-making mood, I thought I'd leave you with a horrifying memory from my childhood...the Child Catcher of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as he searches the Toymaker's shop.
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Why has one of Britain’s best-loved comedians decided to play it straight? The star of Stan & Ollie talks about politics, his rivalry with Rob Brydon – and his inner Alan Partridge
1 9 6 3 - 1 9 6 6 (UK) 120 x 25 minute episodes Every Tuesday and Friday tea time from 1963 to 1966, children throughout Britain settled down in front of the telly to watch the glove puppet antics of Ollie Beak and Fred Barker on The Five O'Clock Club. Ollie (an opinionated Liverpudlian owl
this map of Native American language groups is based on modern locations and general whereabouts during the era of expansion after the American Revolution.
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Karen E. Thompson writes: This home originally belonged to my Great Aunt Maud Cleveland Whittle. When she was widowed, her sister, my Great Aunt Ollie Cornelia Cleveland, came to live there with he…
