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STRINGS ATTACHED!

Here is an original puppet controller that is in our archives, it was used by AP Films & Century 21 puppeteer Wanda Webb.

Original puppet controller

This controller was used on the production of “Thunderbirds” (and possibly earlier) right up to “The Secret Service” in 1969.

Side View


The controller was then brought out of retirement for the pilot film “The Investigator” in 1973.

Wanda & her husband John Brown

 

 

                                             Puppets waiting for their next scene, or rather a break in the weather!

 

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