Lou Bunin

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lou Bunin was a
prominent puppeteer, an artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in
the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural
artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created
political puppet shows using marionettes including a production of
Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. Photographer Tina Modotti took many
pictures of Bunin and his puppets, including her renowned work, „The
Hands of the Puppeteer.“ On his return to the United States, Bunin
created animated three-dimensional puppets to appear in the 1929 World’s
Fair in New York. His 1943 political stop-motion satire, Bury the Axis,
is well known. Later Bunin landed a job with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where
he created the stop-motion Prologue to the famed film, Ziegfeld Follies
(MGM). He was subsequently fired as a casualty of McCarthyism.