Marionette
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A marionette is a type of puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show. They originated from the medieval times in France and can be found in every country in the world. They can be found in box theatres, curtain theatres and black light theatres. Marionettes are considered by many to be very entertaining for both adults and children.
Pinocchio is a particularly famous marionette.
In the 1960s TV producer Gerry Anderson and his colleagues pioneered a technique combining marionettes with electronic components, typically to control facial features, which they dubbed "supermarionation".
The musical The Sound of Music contains a fairly detailed scene involving several marionettes worked on a stage.
The word "marionette" comes from French, where it was a diminutive of "Marion", which was a diminutive of "Marie".
Marionette sightings in culture
- Thunderbirds: a television series in which all characters were marionettes.
- Being John Malkovich: a 1999 movie starring John Cusack as a street puppeteer whose performances include marionette adaptations of the story of Abélard and Heloise. Puppeteers who worked on this include Images in Motion, Coad Canada Puppets, and the Huber Marionettes.
- Team America: World Police: a 2004 movie using Thunderbirds-style marionettes.
Marionettes took an evil turn when featured in a popular PS2 game Devil May Cry where they became the key enemy.
