What If We Don’t Tell Stories?

Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa, 1978 (tv show)/1987 (film)): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

We covered Fugitive Alien (part I) in episodes 176 (KTMA) and 177 (season 3).

A national park.

We talked about marionettes in our episodes on Invaders from the Deep and we must have talked about puppets in our episode on Devil Doll, no? Oh, and we talked about H.R. Pufnstuf in our episode on Crash of Moons.

Is there a Puppet Wiki? Of course. Though the Muppet Wiki has more info on Big Bird. And you might want to go to the regular wiki for more info on Señor Wences.

Videos going inside Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and behind the scenes of Netflix’s The Dark Crystal. And how Muppets go outside!

The Northeast Georgia History Center offers a video about the history of puppets.

The British Puppet Guild and the Chicago International Puppet Theater.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965).

Peaches Christ highlights Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and interviews Tura Satana in 2005.

Roger Copeland: Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance was a helpful resource (although not without its flaws).

Merce Cunningham: Common Time, a book which accompanied a museum retrospective, was also fun to read.

The Merce Cunningham Trust carries his legacy forward. They also have a YouTube channel.

Merce by Merce by Paik (Charles Atlas, Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, 1978) is two short films (made for tv) about Merce's work, and includes some of his early experiments with dance and video.

Cage/Cunningham (Eliot Caplan, 1991) is a charming documentary about John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s work together. I wonder if someone has uploaded the whole thing to YouTube?

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