Description:The skeleton is one of the puppets from the act 'Dance Macabre'. Douglas Hayward used this puppet in his shows at the Abbots Bromley Puppet Theatre. It was made by Pelham Puppets and is quite complex in its construction. Part of this act requires the puppet to fly apart as seen in the video clip.
Douglas Hayward and his wife Hazel operated the puppets at the Staffordshire County Museum, Shugborough where this act was filmed for the Staffordshire Past Track Archive on 12 January 2004
The accompanying music 'Dance Macabre was composed by Saint Saens