World Famous Ventriloquist Dummy Maker - The Original Georgia Traveler WSB-TV [Ventriloquism] 

Foy Brown makes talking heads. From the 1940's through to the 1970's he was a world famous ventriloquist dummy maker. He worked in Lawrence, Kansas. Each head was hand-carved from basswood. Then they had to be painted and dressed. The process took months. Foy told me he couldn't think of them as figures, puppets or dummies. They were his people. He started as a vaudeville performer with as half of the Foy Brothers. Their mixture of ventriloquism, magic, juggling, and mindreading kept them on the road constantly so carving new dummies was a necessity. Then it became a business. I guess you could say that Foy Brown was famous for putting words in other people's mouth.
This was America in the 1970s.
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The Traveler series with Andy Johnston was an Emmy award winning program that showcased amazing people, unusual things, local legends, food finds, outdoor activities, folk art, and family fun. In 2022 the Walter J. Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia founded The Original Georgia Traveler -- Andy Johnston Collection to preserve and maintain the stories. This story aired on WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News in 1979.
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