I saw the pictures on http://tinyurl.com/22tu8jo and http://tinyurl.com/2epptc7
The shadowgraphic is a folk art. The puppets are made from animal skin or paper. The entertainers use light to illuminate on a white screen, and perform a show with music and singing songs. It has the fame of movie ancestors. In the past, movies, TV, etc, those media were not popular; the shadowgraphic was one kind of popular folk entertainments. In Chinese history, the entertainers performed shadowgraphics for soldiers; the soldiers had to fight a war in daytime, so the shadowgraphics were their entertainerment at night.
I have seen the shadowgraphic several times. The entertainers play the puppets carefully; they especially have to cooperate in music and light. But as the media has become popular, the shadowgraphic has been downfallen; people seem to forget this traditional performance art. Nowadays, if we want to see the art, we have to go to the museum.
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