Vent Haven Museum is all about dummies – puppets, not people with questionable judgment. This museum houses 1,012 ventriloquial figures, more commonly referred to as dummies, from the 19th ...

A TOP SHOW FOR DUMMIES. Ace ventriloquist & his puppets are the talk of B'way BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ You expect to laugh during a show about a guy who makes a tennis ball speak - and a monkey curse.

These early Jim Henson puppets (you might recognize the frog on the right) appeared in a local Washington, D.C. television show “Sam and Friends” that ran from 1955 to 1961. Headed by Kermit ...

By 16, he was carving his own dummies — out of necessity, since high-quality wooden puppets were expensive. Phillips stopped performing when he was 20 — on account of his laziness when it comes to ...

They may not have the creepy, vaguely human faces of ventriloquist dummies, but sock puppets are capable of plenty of mayhem in Patrick Smith‘s short film Puppet. Just don’t let them get their ...

Phillips, who now lives in Buxton, has been making ventriloquy dummies as a hobby since he was a student at York Middle School and York High School.He was 16 when he started carving them out of ...

Whether they're taunting crowds, belittling their keepers or launching into politically incorrect tirades, dummies say the damndest things. A new wave of ventriloquism is emerging as audiences ...

The dolls, dummies and puppets get the proper amount of TLC at Vent Haven. “Each one gets dusted inspected. It's very important because if a mouse got in, or if if there was, ...

Shortly after graduating high school in Maryland, Henson saw an ad for a television station looking for a puppeteer. Henson recalls in the documentary, "I don't remember ever seeing a puppet show ...