"PUSS IN BOOTS," a marionette version of the story about a cat with magical boots who tricks an ogre out of his riches to win a princess, featuring original music and songs by Frederick Hoffman.

The music video for "Headlines" features marionette versions of the band performing the song.

This marionette version has country-and-western songs, along with the familiar Oz characters and special effects like the tornado and the witch melting.

Its original production was Bastien and Bastienne, a marionette version of Mozart's famous opera.

Shown annually by NBC for many years, this was the first animated Christmas special ever telecast (excluding marionette versions of The Night Before Christmas and the Nativity story).

He performed with intricate dolls he designed with Marty: a skeleton whose bones broke apart and reassembled, zoot-suited hepcats who lit and smoked their own cigarettes, even a marionette version of Sid Krofft himself, manipulating a smaller marionette of a juggler.

"BEAUTY AND THE BEAST," a marionette version of the classic French fairy tale, featuring a cast of hand-carved characters and a live beast.

For the bicycle rides, builders created marionette versions of the Muppets, which were operated from a rigging device suspended above them.

There will be a marionette version of the familiar fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin" on Dec. 27 at the Scarsdale Library, at Post and Olmsted Roads, from 2 to 3 P.M.

A special separate marionette version of Liewe Heksie was used when she flew on her broom.