Every Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan, R. H. Macy & Co. stages a parade of huge comic balloons designed by Tony Sarg. When the procession ends the balloons are released. Cash prizes are paid for ...

Tony Sarg, known as "America's Puppet Master," was born in Guatemala in 1880 to a German father, who served his nation as a diplomat, and a British mother, who raised him.

Tony Sarge is pictured painting his balloon puppets. Rather than being controlled from the top down, Sarg’s balloons—his floating giant puppets—were controlled from the ground up.

Teacher Leigh Jacobs shared these photos of Terry’s Balloons Over Broadway event. The children’s book is a biography written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet about Tony Sarg, the puppeteer ...

The book tells the story of Tony Sarg, the German-American puppet master who, in the late 1920s, turned Macy’s parade marionettes into the beloved floating spectacles we’ve all come to know ...

Boston Home Winter Arts Events in Boston: Hugh Hayden and Tony Sarg Where to go and what to see for your winter arts fix. 11/16/2024, 11:04 a.m.

In 1927, Sarg designed the first balloons for the Macy’s Christmas (later Thanksgiving Day) Parade and orchestrated an elaborate (and quite enjoyable) sea monster hoax with one of the balloons ...

If you've ever seen the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, then you've seen the giant balloon animals that float above the streets, wowing paradegoers young and old. But if you've ever wondered about the ...

In another, Sarg’s assistants paint an aloof expression onto a giant balloon head. Tony Sarg and his assistants painting a parade balloon. Photo: Fotograms News/Nantucket Historical Association.

The artist, Tony Sarg, was big in his day. Edgar B. Herwick III of member station GBH was on Nantucket yesterday for a re-creation of the monstrous hoax.