Here's some more blast-from-the past video...The World's Angriest Puppets (TWAP!) began as an attempt to film a Bear Town TV pilot as a special year-end project when I was studying Radio/Television broadcasting in college. As I think I've explained here before, myself and the classmates who worked on this grossly underestimated the amount of time and resources that were required to pull off such an ambitious project. When we realized that we weren't going to finish the video in time to get a grade and pass the course I panicked and decided to take most of the footage we had shot along with shots from other puppet videos I had been working on and randomly splice it all together to make an "experimental film".

I completely cop to the fact I was just desperate to pass my course with this, but I do remember being heavily influenced by Jim Henson's Timepiece at the time and I tried to give the video a similar sort of stream-of-consciousness feel. The name "The World's Angriest Puppets" was a random one that I think just adds to the (somewhat intentional) unevenness of "TWAP". I look back at this video now as kind of failed experiment. It may not make a lot sense when you see it here, but it was the beginnings of Bear Town.

One problem with this video is that it has some uncleared music in it. I've always wanted to include this as an extra on a Bear Town DVD eventually, but that would require going back and editing out the uncleared material. There's also a couple sections in this that drag a bit so I think it might be fun to pull a George Lucas and go back and make a few changes. Nothing major, just tighten up some of the editing, redo the titles and reframe a couple shots where the puppeteers' heads show.

Until then, enjoy The World's Angriest Puppets original and uncut.

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