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y separately published work icon The Tintookies and Little Fella Bindi single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1966... 1966 The Tintookies and Little Fella Bindi
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  • 'Adapted from the Marionette Theatre of Australia's production of "Little Fella Bindi", with music and lyrics by Eric Rasdal, and Puppets designed by Wilfred Asplin. Directed by Peter Scriven.' (Publisher's page).

    Tintookies (from an Aboriginal word meaning 'little people who come from the sandhills'), was an elaboratee marionette musical first staged by creator Peter Scriven at the Elizabethan Theatre in Sydney in 1956. After the success of this production, Tintookie became the generic name for any of the puppets used by the Marionette Theatre of Australia.

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