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[jfar]

a dummy ,

I know a few of them that come to mind.:sarc:

Is it a
Ventriloquist
Ventriloquist
Dummy.?

 

[Dwarf]

It is a dummy. However, this dummy was used by someone famous. Who used it, and what was the dummy known as?

 

[johnwillyums]

Mr Punch?

 

[jfar]

This fellow , oh he looks familiar.

 

[johnwillyums]

Archie

 

[The Howling Wolves]

This fellow , oh he looks familiar.

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Looks like a picture of 2 dummies as I can't see the ventriloquist.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Dennis on a good day

Hey Boo,
Everyday is a good day even with you harassing all of us!!!

 

[Dwarf]

I'll give you a clue. It was a ventriloquist's dummy, and it went by the name of Stookie Bill.

 

[Bongo]

This fellow , oh he looks familiar.

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This fellow , oh he looks familiar.


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Looks like a picture of 2 dummies as I can't see the ventriloquist.

:roflmao:

 

[boohbah]

Stooky Bill was the name given to the head of a ventriloquist dummy that John Logie Baird used in his early experiments to transmit a televised image between rooms in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street, London.
"Stooky" or "stookie" is Scots for stucco or plaster of Paris, or for a plaster cast used to immobilise bone fractures.[1] The term is also used someone who is slow-witted or awkward in his movements. The incandescent lights illuminating the subject to be televised generated so much heat that Baird couldn't use a human for the testing, so Stooky Bill was used. The exaggerated smiling black and white features of the dummy's face were necessary for the early trials. Eventually the hair became singed and the painted face became cracked by the heat.


incidently I'll stooky you ya bas . is a term of endearment from a Glaswegian .( as i am)

 

[Dwarf]

Spot on.

Known as 'Stookie Bill' this ventriloquist’s dummy was used by John Logie Baird (1888-1946) in his experimental television work. The lights for the experiments were so hot Baird couldn't use a human for the tests. Baird began experimenting with imaging systems in the early 1920s. By 1924 he successfully transmitted outline images over wires and by 1925 he was able to transmit recognisable human faces.

Your turn.

 

[boohbah]

 

[jfar]

A log maker from old newspapers?

 

[boohbah]

good guess but ....no

 

[The Howling Wolves]

a tile marker

 

[Joan Archer]

Is it the lever to alter the train lines.

 

[boohbah]

nope dennis . and not a tile chopper either!
sorry joan guess again

 

[jfar]

Is it for working with glue? is it a Bench Vice?

 

[boohbah]

no jim !

 

[boohbah]

ok here it is from the other side