Make more than one puppet and you've got yourself a Punch and Judy show.
This is an area where Puppet Labs has already made at least one strategic acquisition, and is likely to make more in the months ahead, Kanies says.
They are 52 Sicilian rod-marionette puppets, made more than 100 years ago, and they are very rare, with only a handful of collections left in the United States.
About 30 years ago, the company found it needed more puppets, but couldn't find the artisans to make them.
Sculptor John Blundall has called the new puppet design "ridiculous", criticising Anderson's attempts to make the puppets appear more lifelike on the basis that "We always try to do with puppets what you can't do with humans".
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many writers and visual artists (Alfred Jarry, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp), looking for something that was a little bit human, but much more art, made puppets, or works for puppets.
Maybe it's very difficult to make puppet stop-motion, puppet animation... maybe it's not contemporary now".
Commentator John Peel argues that it is "small character touches" that make the puppet cast "much more rounded" and allow the viewer to see "much more of the Tracys as characters than we ever were of the inhabitants of previous series"; he compares the scriptwriting favourably to that of live-action drama.
And Jon himself would make those puppets talk.
