Harlequin Puppet Theatre (1963)
Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire (Clywd).
M/S of a sign - 'Harlequin Puppet Theatre'. M/S of Britain's first puppet theatre. A woman checks the strings of different wooden puppets hanging in a row. M/S of schoolgirls filing into the theatre. M/S of people at buying tickets at the box office.
The audience are seated in front a small stage. Various shots of the play, Chu Chin Chow, performed by puppets. Shots of the audience. Panning shot along the puppeteers controlling the puppets from above the stage. Various shots of puppets - including a drunk, a weightlifter and a cow.
The puppeteers are named as Pat Ronald, Eric Bramell and Millicent Ford. The schoolgirls are from Hillgrove School in Bangor.
Cuts exist - please see separate record.
FILM ID:235.03
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The Harlequin Puppet Theatre at Rhos on Sea, North Wales
Mr H takes a look around the outside of a curious little theatre built in 1958 that is Britain's first and only permanent theatre designed and built for puppets located at Rhos on Sea, near Colwyn Bay in North Wales which is run single handedly by famed puppeteer Chris Somerville aka 'Mr Bimbamboozle'.
Rhos on Sea 1960
Extract courtesy of BFI Britain on Film
Rhos-On-Sea Shopping Week & Cuts (1926)
Full title reads: Rhos-on-Sea Shopping Week opened by Lord Colwyn, Lord Emmot and Brigadier General Robertson.
Denbighshire (Clwyd), Wales.
C/U of group of dignitaries applauding. C/U of important looking woman giving a speech. C/U of bearded man giving a speech. C/U of another man speaking, he holds a gigantic key in his hand. M/S of one of the men cutting a ribbon stretching in front of a crowd, with the help of two little girls (Brownie Guides?). Panning shot of crowd.
Cuts / out takes start at 01:17:17. M/S of dignitaries walking onto raised platform and sitting around table covered in Union Jack flag. More shots of dignitaries giving speeches, some flick through booklets and show them to audience. Otherwise, shots are similar to those in edited part of item.
FILM ID:658.07
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Rhos on sea viewfrom the window
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V-log 23: Pilgrimage to Rhos-on-Sea and Llandudno
I go on a short walking pilgrimage in honour of Sts. Trillo and St. Tudno. Both lived in the 6th century and were instrumental in the evangelisation of North Wales.
St. Trillo was a Breton who sailed to Wales and set up his hermitage on an island just off the northern coast. The island is now part of the mainland but his chapel - probably much rebuilt - remains.
St. Tudno was one of the seven sons of King Seithenyn, whose legendary kingdom Cantref y Gwaelod in Cardigan Bay was submerged by tidal activity. According to the legends, Tudno turned to God in order to make recompense for the drunken incompetence of his father, which had led to the loss of the kingdom under the waves. He set up his hermitage on the slopes of the Great Orme above the town of Llandudno which was named after him.
On my pilgrimage I walked from St. Trillo's Chapel - the UK's smallest church - to St. Tudno's Church via Penrhyn Bay, the Little Orme, Llandudno and the Great Orme.
May Fayre 2019 (festival of Punch and Judy!)
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Marionette
A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and on television. The attachment of the strings varies according to its character or purpose.
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