# Puppetry: String Marionettes

Accompanies a little boy as he visits a puppeteer's workshop and reveals the craftsman at work constructing one of the marionettes - carving the wooden parts, assembling the pieces, and adding the costume. Demonstrates the manipulation of marionette strings for the basic actions of walking, gesturing, nodding, and sitting. Concludes with episode from Hansel and Gretel.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1947
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/4047_Puppetry_String_Marionettes)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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