Marionettes Issue Title The Young Idea (1942)

Marionettes. Part of THE YOUNG IDEA issue. Melbourne, Australia. At an art school, girl students make their own marionettes in order to learn about the principal of figure construction and movement. Several shots of them moulding and painting the heads and dressing them in suitable clothes. Various shots of the girls manipulating the strings of their puppets so that they dance and move about on a small stage. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the