Midland Montage: 16.10.1958: Lanchester Marionettes

Summary

Puppets being manufactured by the Lanchester marionette company at Stratford.

Year:

1958

Duration:

0:03:22

Film type:

Black & White / Mute

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see the exterior of the Lanchester Marionettes premises in Stratford.
Inside a man is making a wooden marionette in a workshop and a woman is later seen painting the figure and making it clothes on a sewing machine. Finally we see the the completed string puppet.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The Lanchester Marionettes were a puppet group run by Waldo Lanchester and his wife Muriel. Waldo, who was the brother of the actress Elsa Lanchester, operated the show from around 1935 until the mid 1960s.