Kawamoto Kihachiro and “The Book of the Dead / 死者の書 ” – a certain something in the slender margin between the real and the unreal – puppets are things that act, there is no such thing as “doll animation”
I found this very nice obituary article on Japanese puppet trick film master Kawamoto Kihachiro on this BLOG “ANGURA!
On puppet trick film – a short documentary on Jiri Trnka (1967, Czech TV), making the first puppet – fabric
… can be seen right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WieHF0r-q1k The natural evolution of my photos of dolls (next
Jirí Trnka and Kawamoto Kihachiro, two old (fairly) article by other people (old BFI site)
An article on Jirí Trnka I found on the old BFI website, which as stated (on the site) it is no longer being maintained; but