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Title: PUPPETS IN SCHOOL

Reference number: 3918

Date: 1958*

Production company: SEFA (Dundee Group)

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.46 mins

Description: Illustration of the various steps in making and dressing papier-mache puppets. The finished models are seen in action in a puppet theatre, operated by children and a glance is given 'behind the scenes'.

Shotlist: c/u girl making puppet head out of modelling clay (0.91) COVERING with Newspaper. 5 or 6 layers papier-mache is applied with paintbrush (0.59) DIVIDING THE HEAD and REMOVING THE PLASTICINE gvs same (1.50) MAKING THE NECK-TUBE tube created after rolling pasted sheet of paper around a cylinder to shape (2.12) FITTING HEAD TO TUBE and COVERING JOIN gvs same (2.58) puppet heads are painted using bright colours (3.25) CUTTING FROCK FROM TEMPLATE (double cloth) gvs same, with garment being sewn to form puppet's 'body' (4.18) CUTTING and SEWING FELT HANDS gvs same (4.46) FIXING HEAD TO DRESS head is attched to body using string (5.20) USING THE PUPPET demonstrations of use, first the head as a finger puppet and then whole thing as hand puppet (5.50) shot of three young boys setting up an outdoor puppet theatre (6.09) shot of puppet show in action (puppuets fighting over a string of sausages (6.45) BEHIND the SCENES shot of children working puppets here (7.05) shot of puppet in action (crossing stage with horse) (7.46)