Originally, ventriloquism was a religious practice. In ancient Greece, people believed ventriloquists had demons in their stomachs who belched words from their host's mouths.
An engastrimyth is another word for ventriloquist, meaning the same in Greek as 'ventriloquist' in Latin.
The shift from ventriloquism as manifestation of spiritual forces toward ventriloquism as entertainment happened in the eighteenth century at the travelling funfairs and market towns of Europe. By the late 18th century, ventriloquist performances were an established form of entertainment in England, although most performers threw their voice to make it appear that it emanated from far away, rather than the modern method of using a puppet.
John Logie Baird made the first successful transmission of a moving image of a human face by television in October 1925. Before using a real person, his office boy, William Taynton, Baird experimented with a ventriloquist's dummy called Stooky Bill.
A ventriloquist's dummy won an Oscar in 1937. Charlie McCarthy, a wooden doll invented by Edgar Bergen, father of movie star Candice Bergen, won the Academy Award for best comedy creation.
For the first three years of her life, Candice Bergen had breakfast with both her famous ventriloquist father, and Charlie McCarthy, his dummy. She thought Charlie was her brother as the dummy would sit there and talk to her: "Drink your milk." Her father never speak directly to her.
Candice Bergen was in constant competition as a child with Charlie McCarthy to the point where the wooden doll had a bigger bedroom and in her father's will the doll got $10,000.... Candice Bergen got nothing.
The character Woody in the Toy Story series was originally a spooky-looking ventriloquist dummy and was mean to the other toys. Disney felt a ventriloquist would be too scary for children, so he was changed him to a pull-string toy with a different, much nicer personality.
Señor Wences (April 17, 1896 – April 20, 1999) was a Spanish ventriloquist, whose popularity grew with his frequent appearances on CBS-TV's The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s and 1960s. He was still working in his 90s and in 1986, Wences made a guest appearance on The Garry Shandling Show.
In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a policeman could patrol with a ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty. He was.
An engastrimyth is another word for ventriloquist, meaning the same in Greek as 'ventriloquist' in Latin.
The shift from ventriloquism as manifestation of spiritual forces toward ventriloquism as entertainment happened in the eighteenth century at the travelling funfairs and market towns of Europe. By the late 18th century, ventriloquist performances were an established form of entertainment in England, although most performers threw their voice to make it appear that it emanated from far away, rather than the modern method of using a puppet.
John Logie Baird made the first successful transmission of a moving image of a human face by television in October 1925. Before using a real person, his office boy, William Taynton, Baird experimented with a ventriloquist's dummy called Stooky Bill.
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| John Logie Baird & Stookey Bill |
A ventriloquist's dummy won an Oscar in 1937. Charlie McCarthy, a wooden doll invented by Edgar Bergen, father of movie star Candice Bergen, won the Academy Award for best comedy creation.
For the first three years of her life, Candice Bergen had breakfast with both her famous ventriloquist father, and Charlie McCarthy, his dummy. She thought Charlie was her brother as the dummy would sit there and talk to her: "Drink your milk." Her father never speak directly to her.
Candice Bergen was in constant competition as a child with Charlie McCarthy to the point where the wooden doll had a bigger bedroom and in her father's will the doll got $10,000.... Candice Bergen got nothing.
The character Woody in the Toy Story series was originally a spooky-looking ventriloquist dummy and was mean to the other toys. Disney felt a ventriloquist would be too scary for children, so he was changed him to a pull-string toy with a different, much nicer personality.
Señor Wences (April 17, 1896 – April 20, 1999) was a Spanish ventriloquist, whose popularity grew with his frequent appearances on CBS-TV's The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s and 1960s. He was still working in his 90s and in 1986, Wences made a guest appearance on The Garry Shandling Show.
In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a policeman could patrol with a ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty. He was.
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