Extraits :
- "More than 2,000 puppets that formed a crucial part of Taiwan's folk cultural heritage were destroyed Thursday when an early morning fire engulfed the studios of a famous puppet show company in the central-south county of Yunlin. The fire broke out at Pili International Multimedia Inc.'s studios in the county's Tuku Township in the early morning hours and the blaze raged for more than two hours before it could be extinguished, local firefighters said."
- "Chris Huang (黃文擇), chairman of the puppet company that produces films and video games featuring the puppets, said all of the puppets, manuscripts, stage props, film production equipment and a number of newly completed films were burned to ashes. "The fire has caused incalculable losses, " Huang said. He added, however, that television puppet shows will not be affected because the company has film reserves and can produce new films at other studios."
- "Huang comes from Taiwan's most prominent puppet [theater] family, whose members, including his late grandfather Huang Hai-tai (黃海岱) and his father Huang Chun-hsiung (黃俊雄), have continued finding new ways to evolve the traditional artistry of performing with wooden puppets. Their creative performances and skillful management have made them into the living history of Taiwan's puppet show development. Huang, along with his brother Vincent Huang (黃強華), later took up the family baton with a younger generation's vision and passion, forming Pili Multimedia and propelling the company into the modern era by adopting Hollywood production techniques, as well as computer animated special effects and digital sound effects, that took the traditional artform to a whole new level. An official of the Council for Cultural Affairs said the Pili Puppet Theater has become one of Taiwan's most important cultural and creative businesses."
Extraits :
- "Compunction and grief written all over his face, Chris Huang (黃文擇) talked about the large fire that hit Pili International Multimedia’s studio on Thursday, in which more than 2,000 puppets used in the performance and filming of Taiwanese traditional puppet theater, known as budaixi (布袋戲), perished."
- "Among those destroyed in the fire were the original prototypes for Su Huan-chen (素還真) and I Yeh-shu (一頁書), two of the main characters in a well-known Pili budaixi (霹靂布袋戲) series: Su is known for his wisdom and martial arts skills, while I Yeh-shu is his loyal and trustworthy friend."
- "For more than a decade, Vincent Huang wrote scripts for the plays, while Chris Huang took responsibility for voice dubbing. Pili’s television channel has a record of more than 3.5 million viewers and helped Taiwanese puppet theater go international when one of its shows aired on the Disney Channel in the US.“Budaixi represents a form of Taiwanese cultural heritage, and that it is the most important form of traditional art in Yunlin County,” Chris Huang said."
Extraits :
- "The studio of the Taiwanese Pili hand puppet TV show (霹靂布袋戲), famous for its martial arts storyline and state-of-the-art animation, in Yunlin County was destroyed in a fire early yesterday."
- "Chris Huang and Vincent Huang inherited the art form from their grandfather, Huang Hai-dai (黃海岱), one of most revered hand puppet masters in Taiwan."
- “My big brother is responsible for the script, and I was responsible for writing the chorus lines,” Vincent Huang recalled. The pair used to perform to packed houses in the heyday of hand puppet theater.
- "As live puppet shows were out of vogue, the brother established Pili to produce TV hand puppet programs, creating popular shows and characters such as Su and Ye Hsiao-chai."
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