Sex, Drugs and Soft Toys - The Making of Meet the Feebles

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Sex, Drugs and Soft Toys - The Making of Meet the Feebles

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Screened on a TVNZ arts show, this documentary looks at how the strings were pulled on Peter Jackson's low-budget puppet movie Meet the Feebles. An old Wellington railway shed fizzes with energy and imagination as a team peppered with future Oscar-winners crafts the gleefully subversive Muppets parody. Jackson muses on his influences, processes and propensity for "savage humour" in a fascinating interview. Included is footage of his childhood films — war movies and stop motion animation made ...

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1989

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/sex-drugs-and-soft-toys-1989

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seatoun / crane / dolly / theatre / puppeteer / costume / weta workshop / cameron chittock / ramon aguilar / glenis foster / heidi the hippo / sfx / fx / effects / wellywood / railway shed / wellington / weta / vietnam / satire / parody / show business / puppetry / puppets / puppet / making of / behind the scenes / special effects

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