: the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows
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: the art of manipulating puppets
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The film draws visual and cultural parallels between the two places – firemen in Taishan mirrored by firemen in Turin, shadow puppetry in Taishan echoed by shadow puppetry in the film museum.—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 May 2026 With glorious small town production design by Suzie Davies, and superb visual effects, animation, and puppetry creating the sheep, this fine family film looks every bit as colorful and idyllic as Babe, its distant cousin.—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2026 Hameed provides the voice and remote puppetry, while Shah inhabits the bear costume onstage.—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026 Ortiz believes puppetry found him by accident.—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for puppetry