Try and find some that would come up to your knee, so that when you wear them as puppets it doesn't look as if half the puppet is your arm.
Mr. Cohn was a principal figure in the 1974 birth of I.C.M., which for the next decade and a half played puppet master to more projects in the movies, theater and publishing than perhaps any other corporate entity.
So rich in detail is this production that it would repay repeat viewings, allowing you to focus not only on the half-size puppets but also on the careful choreography of the eight puppeteers; you could observe in detail how Kandel deflects attention from herself despite performing all the dialogue, and appreciate the effortless fluidity of the stagecraft.
Fairly straight-forward stuff for the modern world (The olden days: Three channels tops, and one of those showed a girl playing noughts and crosses with a puppet half the time).
Using a "replacement" technique, which switches the lower half of the puppets' faces frame by frame, Anomalisa is populated by players whose bodies seem lifelike but whose expressions resemble moving masks, with everyone but Michael and Lisa eerily cast from the same mould.
Behind them are a burning fire and a half wall where puppeteers hold up puppets that cast shadows.
On a workman's table, pushed off to the side, there are half a dozen handcrafted puppets waiting to come to life.
In 1961, Baker and his partner, Alton Wood, purchased the building at 1345 W. 1st Street, where he'd spend the last half of his life creating puppets, designing shows, training puppeteers, and dreaming up new ways to entertain children.
The first half is largely a shadow puppet presentation, with characters and a script adapted from Marlowe, performed to a percussive and vaguely Asian-sounding original score by David First.
It was a puppet fiction later satirised by Half Man Half Biscuit in their song The Trumpton Riots.
