# fairytaletuesday caturday vampire 31daysofhalloween

How about these glorious confections for Created by LA artist Ave Rose - a few of her remarkable taxidermy steampunk automata --- 'Bestiary of the Automata'.

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2019-10-26

In cinema, can pop up in the most unexpected places! Here we have Mickey Rooney's fruit orchestra from:

'Strike up the Band' (1940) dir. Busby Berkeley.

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2019-10-23

Chiromagica, a board game released in 1870 by McLoughlin Bros (NY).
Players place a question card under the ‘spinner’ (both provided with the game)- its hand will move magnetically (magically?) to provide the correct answer.

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2019-10-18

How about some traditional English pantomime puppetry for

Adapted from the English fairytale dating back several thousand years - the 1922 production of 'Jack & the Beanstalk' at London Hippodrome.

Footage:

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2019-10-17

When meets Pinocchio is frankly terrifying. He's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish & plunged alive into a pot before becoming a real boy.
Ills Folkyard from my treasured 1914 Dent edition

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2019-10-16

A small selection of Victorian magic lantern slides depicting Punch and Judy - such a fascinating history associated with these characters!

https://t.co/NNCCrFw69G - article .

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2019-10-15

When meets --- An early anime that's almost *too* adorable - but has a strong political subtext & demonstrates the lineage of the kawaii aesthetic:

'Suteneko Tora-chan / Little Tora: The Abandoned Cat' (1947) dir. Kenzô Masaoka.

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2019-10-12

Kihachirō Kawamoto brings his typically glorious Bunraku sensibility to the exquisite craft of Czech puppetry -- his Sleeping Beauty adaptation co-produced with the Jiří Trnka Studio in Prague.



'Briar-Rose / Dornröschen' (1990) dir. Kihachirō Kawamoto.

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2019-10-11

VINTAGE HALLOWEEN I love finding vintage decorations and I now own this delightful paper bat. He's definitely vampiric look at his tiny fangs! He doubles as a puppet as you can fold and unfold his wings. Image 2 vampire bats c.1900

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2019-10-09

Something special to behold for --- created in 1930 by one of the most remarkable animation teams ever:

'Le roman de Renard / The Tale of the Fox' (1937) dir. Ladislas Starevich, Irene Starewicz.

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2019-10-06

WITCH MARIONETTE Hand made, unique, & scary as hell this Gothtastic Czech puppet marks day 3 of ooh!!

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2019-10-03