Crankie Box Theater

Crankie Box

  A method for creating a scrolling backdrop for a puppet show!

Front

Crankie Box Top / Crankie Box Bottom Inside

Crankie Box Side View / Reel Side View

Crank Side View

Crank Top View
 

Diagrams by George Konnoff

Featured Crankie Shadow Box Artist:

Katherine Fahey
Former Black Cherry Puppet Theater puppeteer in Baltimore, MD

"I alternate between doing papercut, painting and print commissions, shadow puppet shows, craft shows, teaching, and designing and printing posters, shirts, and CD covers."

 

sources:

http://www.katherinefahey.com/#_

http://www.2hawks2fishes.com/

Shadow Puppets

 

 Originating in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), Chinese shadow puppets were made from donkey and ox leather, carved until transparent, dyed bright colors, and finally lit from behind by lantern light.

This is a Wayang Kulit puppet from Java, Indonesia. It is made from buffalo skin with rods made from cow horns.

Lotte Reiniger, influenced by Chinese shadow puppet plays, wrote and directed The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923), the oldest surviving full-length stop-motion animated film, and used the first multi-plane animation camera a decade before Walt Disney.

Prince Achmed (1923)

Papageno (1935) by Lotte Reiniger

Puca Puppets presents Roisin agus An Ron in Ireland