Editing Puppetry (section)

===North America===
The [[Teotihuacan]] culture (Central Mexico) of 600 AD made figurines with moveable arms and legs as part of their funerary rites. [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] also used ceremonial puppets.<ref name="blumenthal"/>
In 1519, two puppeteers accompanied [[Hernando Cortez]] on his first journey to Mexico. Europeans brought their own puppet traditions with them, but gradually distinctive styles, forms and puppet characters developed in [[North America]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

During the Depression, folk puppeteers traveled with carnivals,  working with their own scripts and with dioramas and marionettes of their own manufacture.

Some advances in 20th-century puppetry have originated in the [[United States]]. Marionette puppetry was combined with television as early as the 1940s, with [[Howdy Doody]] of the United States being a notable marionette in this field. [[Bil Baird]] worked on revitalising marionette theatre and puppetry in the United States. He and his wife, Cora Eisenberg, had their own marionette theatre in New York. [[Ventriloquist]], [[Edgar Bergen]] also made a major contribution.<ref>Funni, Arthur, ''The Radio Years of Bergen and McCarthy'' (Thesis)</ref> In the 1960s Peter Schumann's [[Bread and Puppet Theater]] developed the political and artistic possibilities of puppet theatre in a distinctive, powerful and immediately recognizable way. At roughly the same time, [[Jim Henson]] was creating a type of soft, foam-rubber and cloth puppet which became known collectively as [[The Muppets|Muppets]]. Initially, through the children's television show ''[[Sesame Street]]'', and later in ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' and on film, these inspired many imitators and are today are recognised almost everywhere (Henson also branched out into [[animatronics]] through the formation of his [[Jim Henson's Creature Shop|Creature Shop]], as showcased in his films ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''[[Labyrinth (1986 film)|Labyrinth]]''). [[Wayland Flowers]] also made a major contribution to adult puppetry with his satirical puppet, [[Wayland Flowers|Madame]].

[[Sid and Marty Krofft]] are two of Americas most well known puppeteers and were mainly known for their live action children's TV series in the 60s and 70s namely [[HR Pufnstuf]] and [[Lidsville]].

Puppets also have been used in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films, notably with the character of [[Yoda]]. His voice and manipulation was provided by [[Frank Oz]].

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File:EdgarBergenandCharlieMcCarthyStageDoorCanteen1.jpg| [[Edgar Bergen]] and his puppet [[Charlie McCarthy]]
File:Bread and puppet puppets glover vermont.jpg|Puppets in the [[Bread and Puppet Theater]] Museum in Glover, Vermont, USA
File:Mallory Lewis and Lamb Chop.jpg|[[Mallory Lewis]] and [[Lamb Chop (puppet)|Lamb Chop]]
File:Puppet Bleeckie and Leslie Fleming c.jpg|Leslie Madeline Fleming and Bleeckie, a character from a series of web videos.
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