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| Polo
Burguière the fiddler is Ben's father, and Valerie Loomer, who plays
4-course guitar, then banjo, is his mother. All of the other characters
are puppets created in the South of France by Elsa Ballandreau with Valerie.
The puppets are : Ben, the fish, 3 bears, 1 racoon, 2 otters and 1 moose.
All of the events that take place on the river are shown in a "cranking
theater". This, essentially, is a primitive movie box. The images are
painted on a long scroll of paper, and using the crank, we manually go from
one image to the next. Elsa painted the 26 images of our scroll. Polo built
the "cranking theater".
The story was adapted
by Valerie from the book : Red Fox and His Canoe by Nathaniel
Benchley. In this book, the little boy and his father are American Indians.
For Valerie, it seemed more interesting to imagine an America in which
the Europeans would have assimilated certain native American values. |