Zoot Singing Grapefruits Claymation Puppet

Sold Stock #93786 | Sold Dec 7 2018

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Zoot Singing Grapefruit's Claymation Puppet

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A grapefruit bass singer Claymation puppet made by creator Will Vinton for the 1988 mockumentary Meet the Raisins! The clay puppet is sculpted over a wood and foam cover and hand-painted to resemble a large anthropomorphic yellow grapefruit with a small face and white gloved hands secured with a metal wire. The puppet is in excellent condition overall, having been stored for decades under archival conditions.

Following the success of its 1986 advertising campaign, the Will Vinton Studio released Meet the Raisins!, a mockumentary about the California Raisins’ rise to fame. Zoot, the grapefruit bass singer of the Vine-Yls, the first iteration of the singing group, is jettisoned from the group and replaced with Stretch, another raisin. He later joins Lick Broccoli, lead singer of the Herbicides, a caricature of Mick Jagger. Meet the Raisins! was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in the category of Outstanding Animated Program.

Dimensions: 7” x 7” x 7” (17 cm x 17 cm x 17 cm)

Provenance: Mr. Will Vinton

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Estimate: $1,000 - 1,500

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