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Ventriloquism is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. The act of ventriloquism is ventriloquizing and the ability to do so is commonly called in English the ability to "throw" ones voice. The Ventriloquist is a DC Comics villain, an enemy of Batman. ...
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However, the term "throwing one's voice" is misleading because it implies that a sound's physical origin has changed, when really the change has been perceptual and not physical. The illusion of ventriloquism is just that, an illusion. A ventriloquist is skilled at speaking without moving his or her lips. The audience therefore actually detects the sound of the voice from the ventriloquist’s mouth but sees only the mouth of the puppet moving. Thus, two modalities are in conflict. Vision detects the location of the speaker as distinct from where audition (hearing) localizes the speaker. When these two modalities are in conflict, our perceptual system must resolve audition in determining where objects are located in space. The unconscious mind, therefore, resolves the discrepancy between these two modalities by hearing the voice as if it is coming from the moving mouth of the puppet. This short-term change in perception is called capture. This specific capture concerning ventriloquism is an example of ‘visual capture’ because the visual system dominates the auditory system. While the illusion is extremely convincing, ventriloquists do not actually have the ability to ‘throw’ their voices. However, they are skilled at deceiving audiences through their practice of speaking intelligible sounds without moving their mouths and moving the dummy’s mouth in synchrony with the sound of their own voice.[citation needed]
Origins
The Greeks called this gastromancy and it was often closely aligned with aspects of necromancy in that it was used to make it seem that the spirits of the dead had returned to pass on information retrieved from beyond the grave. In the Middle Ages it was thought to be similar to witchcraft. As spiritualism led to stage magic and escapology so ventriloquism became more of a performance art as, starting around the 16th century, it shed its mystical trappings. This article is about the general subject of necromancy. ...
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Modern-day ventriloquism The most familiar type of ventriloquist seen today is a nightclub performer sitting on a stool with a wooden dummy on his or her lap. This comedic style of ventriloquism, is however a fairly recent innovation, which began in the days of Vaudeville in the late 19th century. The vaudeville acts did not concentrate on humor as much as on demonstrating the ventriloquist's ability to deceive the audience and his skill in switching voices. For this reason, many of the performers used multiple figures, switching quickly from one voice to another. Jules Vernon was one of the more famous American vaudeville ventriloquists who used multiple figures. Englishman Fred Russell pioneered the use of a single figure with his dummy Coster Joe. Perhaps the most famous vaudeville ventriloquist, however, The Great Lester, used only one figure Frank Byron Jr., and it is The Great Lester's success which paved the way for the ventriloquist-with-one-figure routine which is so ubiquitous today. Image File history File links Edgar_Bergen-Charlie_McCarthy. ...
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 Mallory Lewis is the daughter of Shari Lewis, an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s. Ventriloquism was immensely popular in the middle of the 20th century, thanks in great part to the work of one of the Great Lester's students, Edgar Bergen. Bergen popularized the idea of the comedic ventriloquist. Bergen, together with his favorite figure, Charlie McCarthy, hosted a radio program that was broadcast from 1937 to 1956. It was the #1 program on the night it aired. Bergen continued performing until his death in 1979, and his popularity inspired many other famous ventriloquists who followed him, including Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson, and Senor Wences. Ventriloquism's popularity waned for a while, due likely to modern media's electronic ability to convey the illusion of voice, the natural special effect that is the heart of ventriloquism. A number of modern ventriloquists have developed a following as the public taste for live comedy grows. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1861x1645, 536 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lamb Chop (puppet) ...
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 Ramdas Padhye is an Indian Ventriloquist, Puppeteer, Puppet-Maker who has performed for the last 40 years in India and abroad. Louis Albert Russo, made his first network appearance in 1949. Billed as The One Man Twosome, Russo Louis, pseudonym Russ Lewis! Employed as his primary figure, character, Brooklyn Birch. His career saw him through burlesque, circus, night clubs and vaudeville at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. There followed the Steve Allen Show, Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Dean Martin Show, Rowan and Martin, Mike Douglas Show and Joey Bishop Talk shows. In total the ventriloquist logged over 30 national TV guest appearances. Las Vegas, major show-rooms world tours with numerous legends of the entertainment world, Liberace, Jayne Mansfield, Alan King, included as well USO in Vietnam, and distant Strategic Air Command bases. The actor ventriloquist was a member of the first USO troupe to cross the Arctic Circle, entertain American troops, and perform for a U.S. President, Jimmy Carter. Russo Louis continued to perform into the early 21st century. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Making the right sounds One difficulty ventriloquists face is that all the sounds they make must be made with lips slightly separated. For the bilabial sounds /b/, /p/, and /m/, the only choice is to replace them with others. The dental sounds /v/, /t/, /d/, and /n/ can replace them successfully enough that, if spoken quickly, it is difficult to notice a difference.
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- The Great Gabbo, a 1929 film.
- Dead of Night, a British portmanteau horror film, from 1945, whose most celebrated story involved Michael Redgrave playing a crazed ventriloquist.
- "The Glass Eye" (1957), an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
- "The Dummy", a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone.
- Devil Doll, a 1963 suspense film about an evil ventriloquist.
- "Look - (Stop Me If You Heard this One) But There were These Two Fellers", a 1968 episode of The Avengers (series 6, episode 11).
- "Frank and Marvin" is a 1973 episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in which Frank gets a dummy to do an act at a holiday camp.
- Magic, a 1978 film directed by Richard Attenborough and based on a novel by William Goldman.
- Avargal (1979), a famous film by Balachander in which Kamal Haasan played the ventriloquist's role for the Junior character.
- The Ventriloquist, a Batman villain, created in 1988.
- "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" (1990) is an episode from the series Tales from the Crypt.
- Night of the Living Dummy (1993), first in a series of books within the Goosebumps range.
- "Krusty Gets Kancelled", (1993) is an episode of The Simpsons which features a dummy called Gabbo who appears again briefly in "Bart to the Future" (2000).
- "The Puppet Show", (1997) is an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which features a dummy called Sid, who actually a demon hunter imprisoned in the body of a dummy.
- Dummy (2002) is a movie about a man who expresses his feelings through a ventriloquist dummy.
- The South Park episode "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" (2003)).
- "Ventriloquist Week" and "Ventriloquist Week 2", weeklong specials on The Late Show with David Letterman where ventriloquists were brought in to perform on the show.
- The Angel episode "Smile Time" (2004) is about puppets that sucked out children's souls. Although not necessarily about dummies, but the puppets are controlling their creator by putting their hands inside a hole in the creator's back, just like a ventriloquist does.
- Mahoraba, a 2005 anime in which a main character, Yukio Haibara, uses ventriloquism to communicate.
- Dead Silence, a 2007 horror film about a dead ventriloquist named Mary Shaw who was murdered, and takes her vengeance on the townspeople through her dolls. The film is from the creators of the Saw film series which included Billy the Jigsaw Puppet, which has some of the characteristics of a ventriloquist's dummy.
- Triloquist (2007), about a boy who, since witnessing the murder of his mother, only speaks through his dummy. [1] [2]
- Chicago: The Musical- the song "We Both Reached For the Gun" is often displayed with Roxy sitting on Billy Flynn's lap, and Billy's voice fills in for Roxy. "Notice how his lips never move...almost"
- Superman has demonstrated "super-ventriloquism" on occasion, at one time even using it to communicate with aliens while in soundless space.
- The Saw (series) uses a puppet named Billy to send messages to victims via television or recorder.
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The Ventriloquist is a DC Comics villain, an enemy of Batman. ...
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Tales from the Crypt is an American horror anthology TV series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO. It was based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name and was produced by The Geffen Film Company in association with Warner Bros. ...
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Mahoraba ) is a manga series by Akira Kojima, which was later adapted into an anime. ...
Dead Silence (originally titled Shhhh. ...
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Billy is a puppet that has appeared in the Saw films. ...
Triloquist is a 2007 horror movie written by Mark Jones. ...
2007 has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the year of the threequels, a nickname referring to both the 2004 summer movie season and several film franchises which premiered or had installments released in 2004, which appear again this year: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Ocean...
Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ...
The powers of the DC Comics character Superman have changed a great deal since his introduction in the 1930s. ...
The Saw film series is a horror/thriller film franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, beginning in 2004 and continuing to the present and into the future. ...
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