Movies: Puppetry

MANOS: The Hands of Felt is a puppet musical re-imagining of the cult classic MANOS: The Hands of Fate. The film's story of a family vacation gone horribly wrong combines with the backstage drama of a movie shoot gone horribly wrong to tell the bizar...

A Czech family deals with their problems in a strange way....

This unaired pilot, produced by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, was shot in Atlanta in the summer of 1962. The pilot featured Kermit the Frog, Taminella Grinderfall and King Goshposh, characters who would all reappear a few years later in the Tales From M...

A road safety lesson using puppets and animation kindergarten age children....

A five hour and forty-five minute film set on board a BLAH Airlines flight - the boring, beige and dull antithesis of the innovative and stylish experience when flying Virgin America. The film, which will be screened on April 10 as part of the offici...

A boy's dog has run off and, with the help of unfortunately named marionette Handy, the kid learns to use a telephone to find him....

Tulio is forced by Sr. Manguera to put on a Christmas show, so he and the rest of the team put one together in record time. While Tulio discovers the true wrerwriwro of Christmas, Bodoque is in charge of going to look for the gifts, avoiding being te...

Documentary about the puppeteering in Jabba the Hutt for Return of the Jedi....

When Stick Stickly learns of his long-lost twin brother Wood Knot from his mother, he heads to New York City in order to find him. Will they ever reunite again?...

Now that the 3 suns have aligned and the last surviving race of Syentees has died it is up to the Eneber priests to bring back magic to the land of Sablewood....

Several puppets convene at a wooded retreat for a weekend-long writing workshop in which secrets are spilled and lives changed....

Documentary about Jirí Trnka and how he works....

An alien duo arrive on earth and begin to enslave humans, using a local Public Access Children's show as a front. Things get out of hand when a human is forcibly turned into one of them and joins a resistance to overthrow the aliens....

Go behind the scenes to witness the magic of the Muppets in this compilation of rare footage of the variety of puppetry created by Jim Henson. Through a combination of documentary clips, interviews, and rare behind the scenes footage, this program of...

Johnny Diamonds stars in this musical adventure set in ancient mythological greece. Johnny Orpheus returns home to the peaceful village of Salamis to find that it has come upon troubled times. Assembling a crew of heroes like no other, Johnny sets s...

first stop motion animation puppet film by Eric Leiser completed in 2001. The film is a visual poem on Christ's command for believers to: deny self, pick up the cross daily and follow after Him. Matthew 16:24...

Under the constant watch of The Eyes, Misha lives within an environment of constant fear and hypervigilance. They live this way until they are interrupted in their work one day when a creature in the old vent above their station drops fragments of an...

An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip, shot by Jim Henson with puppets built by Don Sahlin....

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work...

'The Mystery in Old Bath bath' is puppet movie created by Quintron and Miss Pussycat as part of the ongoing series 'Trixie and the Treetrunks'. In this adventure the Happy Tree is sick and can't give out secret messages from the Center of the Earth a...