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Puppet film
Years active
Early 1900s till now
Influences
Animation, live-action film, horror film, comedy, fantasy film
Influenced
Puppetry
Puppet film develops on the basis of traditional puppetry. It is in the form of a film that the main characters are puppets. Puppets' limbs are controlled by people and their mouths usually does not move frequently. The height of a puppet is approximately 20 centimeters and the background is a model which fits the size of the puppet. The film is shot by grid-by-frame photography. Puppet film starts around 1900s. Between 1930s and 1980s, most genres of puppet films are comedy and animation. There are some famous magnum opus such as Thunderbirds series and The Dark Crystal. After 1980s, many horror puppet films appeared such as Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. Compared to other films, puppet film focuses more on characters' movements and the main audiences are children and teenagers. More and more reality elements are added into puppet film in recent years.
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