I couldn't find any clips online and because It's a vhs tape I can't make any frame grabs, but I'm attaching a few Baird images found online (there isn't much) to hopefully motivate you to check out more.
I wish the current cgi movies had this variety in design. I can't figure out why all the girls in cgi movies have the exact same round head- the girls in Bolt, Monsters vs Aliens, and Cloudy Meatballs all seem like the same design, and the neck never attaches to the head right. Maybe it's a limitation of the technology, because the best character designers in the world worked on those movies.
You can buy a dvd of some of Baird's early films here. I recommend it highly.
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These are so great! I used to make marionettes all the time when I was younger...I should pick up that DVD. I also agree with you completely about the humans in Cloudy/Bolt/MvA...all the same thing!
I'd seen that with my kids years ago. The style seemed familiar and after doing some research I found that Baird's puppets were used in the famous "Lonely Goatherd" sequence in "The Sound of Music" movie.
Wow, these are great Shane. Bill and Cora Baird were apparently on TV a lot in the 50's. By the time I came along they had been largely upstaged by the Muppets, the Ritz Puppets and others. But they still had enticing photos in our family encyclopedia and other books on puppetry i remember reading.
A friend went and saw one of their NYC shows back in the late eighties. He said it was a bit odd, the theater was run down and the "soundtrack" was a grainy recording. But the puppets were pretty awesome.
Bill, Bil Baird was a master. I sold his estate at a 2 day auction. His children Peter and Laura asked that we handle his estate auction. consisting of 700 lots of puppets and accessories. See wikipedia.
i'm really inspired by these, thank you!
Shane. You require this book: Bil Baird's "The Art of the Puppet"
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Puppet-Bil-Baird/dp/0517120577/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257593956&sr=1-1
Hi Shane, Bil Baird was the Olympus of Puppetry. We're the Flexitoon Puppets from NYC (flexitoon.com.) My wife and partner Olga Felgemacher was Baird's lead puppeteer at his theater in the 1970's, replacing Cora. I put up a bunch of Baird shots on our Flexi-blog, starting here:
http://flexitoon.blogspot.com/2009/05/olga-and-baird.html
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