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Turnabout the story of the Yale Puppeteers
- Title
- Turnabout [videorecording] : the story of the Yale Puppeteers / Shire Films ; directed and produced by Dan Bessie.
- Publication
- Los Gatos, Calif. : Shire Films, c1992.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (59 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Documentary on the Yale Puppeteers (Harry Burnett, Forman Brown, and Roddy Brandon), much of it told in the words of Burnett and Brown. Among the topics discussed are the group's beginnings; its celebrity admirers, some of whom inspired portrait puppets; its success at the Turnabout Theater in Hollywood, where its shows, which included live performers as well as puppets, became known for unsparing satire; its collaboration with performers Elsa Lanchester, Dorothy Neumann, Lotte Goslar, Odetta, and others. The program includes archival footage of performances by the Yale Puppeteers, Lanchester's renderings of several songs by Brown, Goslar in her dance/mime solo Little heap of misery, and present-day vocal performances by Brown and Burnett. Brown and Burnett also discuss their experiences as gay men, which were reflected in Brown's autobiographical novel Better angel, written under the pen-name Richard Meeker.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the Lotte Goslar Pantomime Circus Foundation.
- Uniform Title
- Little heap of misery (Choreographic work : Goslar)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Documentaries and factual films and programs.
- Video.
- Credits (note)
- Editing, Helen Garvy.
- Performer (note)
- Featuring Harry Burnett and his marionettes; Forman Brown and his music and lyrics; with Elsa Lanchester, Dorothy Neumann, Lotte Goslar, Odetta.
- Narrator: Dan Bessie.
- Interviewees: Harry Burnett, Forman Brown, Dorothy Neumann, Odetta.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-7342
- OCLC
- NYPY03-F674
- Title
- Turnabout [videorecording] : the story of the Yale Puppeteers / Shire Films ; directed and produced by Dan Bessie.
- Imprint
- Los Gatos, Calif. : Shire Films, c1992.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Credits
- Editing, Helen Garvy.
- Performer
- Featuring Harry Burnett and his marionettes; Forman Brown and his music and lyrics; with Elsa Lanchester, Dorothy Neumann, Lotte Goslar, Odetta.Narrator: Dan Bessie.Interviewees: Harry Burnett, Forman Brown, Dorothy Neumann, Odetta.
- Added Author
- Bessie, Dan. Director. Producer. NarratorGarvy, Helen. Film editorBurnett, Harry. Performer. IntervieweeBrown, Forman George. Composer. Lyricist. PerformerLanchester, Elsa, 1902-1986, singer.Neumann, Dorothy. IntervieweeGoslar, Lotte. PerformerOdetta, 1930-2008, singer.Odetta, 1930-2008, interviewee.Shire Films.
- Added Title
- Little heap of misery (Choreographic work : Goslar)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-7342