- The term Supermarionation was coined in the 1960s to describe the unique form of puppet filmmaking devised bt the team behind classic children's television programmed like Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, and Joe 90.
- the puppetry filming technique used to make shows
- man-made puppets
- can talk like a human being well
How it is puppeteered?
- The characters in these productions were played by electronic marionettes with a moveable lower lip, which opened and closed in time with pre-recorded dialogue by means of a solenoid in the puppet's head or chest.
- A team operated the marionettes not from the studio floor but from a bridge above it.
- The puppeteer is operating from a platform that is seven and a half feet above the floor five-floor off the set and has these very long tungsten wire to control the puppets
- It is difficult to operate and the puppeteer has to the muscle controlling wrist at least or sort of the subtlety of a dancer in terms of trying to feel the way the puppet moves the way it balances to get these very subtly movements.
What is it made of?
- The puppets' distinguishing features were their hollow fibreglass heads and the solenoids that powered their automatic mouth movements.
- The magnet fixed to the back of the head received electric impulses which move the lips in perfect time to the words they speak
- Each marionette had two electrified wires that conducted the signals into its head; this contained a solenoid which, when operated by the signals, causes the puppet's lower lip to open and closed with each syllable.
- The art of Supermarionation involves the construction of marionette puppets with rigid fibreglass heads and a solenoid based system that allows the figures to move their mouths in time to a pre-recorded dialogue track.
- The puppets had papier-mache heads with painted eyes and mouths and were each controlled using a single carpet thread.
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