Herman Can Sing

Herman Can Sing

**

Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray

The next act at the vaudeville show is announced and a moon-faced potato head appears with a box. Inside the box is a pint-sized replica of himself with a small guitar. The ventriloquist places the dummy on his knee and proceeds to sing a song without moving his lips.

All this is achieved with exceptionally crude clay figure animation on a poorly lit set. The editing and camera settings are more inventive, however.

It's a good song, well sung by a man with a country-and-western timbre to his voice, but there's no story. When the song is over, the show is over.

Reviewed on: 03 Oct 2003
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Puppetry ventriloquy.

Director: Douglas Neilson

Year: 2003

Runtime: 6 minutes

Country: UK

Festivals:

EIFF 2003

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