I’ve shown the Quay Brother’s “Street of Crocodiles” to quite a few classes, especially if we were going to be working on a stop motion project. I’ve always told my students that the puppets were probably pretty big. Maybe over a foot tall, because of the apparent size of the set and the level of detail.

Last week I had a screening of my work and Q&A at UArts in Philadelphia,where the Quays went to school. They currently have an exhibition of a bunch of sets used in various Quay Brothers films. It turns out the guy from Street of Crocodiles is only about eight or nine inches tall. I was way off.

The puppet is smaller than my head.

It’s facinating to see these sets in person, and I would strongly reccomend checking them out. The show is up in Philly until April 9th. For those of you in New York who are patient, the show will travel to Parsons this fall.

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