How to Work Scarf Puppet Marionettes

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village. I am Emily DeCola. I am here at the Puppet Kitchen in New York City and we're going to talk about marionettes. So moving on from the ball and string, to the ball and three strings, to the ball and three strings on a control. We are now moving on to the scarf puppet. Which as I said it is Albrecht Rossers incredibly simple and ingenious adaptation for the novice marionettes or the expert marionettes of the physical principles involved in at three string control idea. The scarf puppet only uses four strings. There's one on each side of the head as which and they're fishing lines. So it's a little bit hard to see but there's one on this side. One on this side and one in the back of the head. Just as our tiny little ball marionette had and then there's a fourth string which runs from one hand all the way up to the control through a hole in the front of the control and down to the other hand. And what that allows me to do is to control both movement, of both hands with one string as I'm able to control the moment of the head and the forward movement of the strings, or of the puppet with the three strings to control the head."