Kawamoto Kihachiro and “The Book of the Dead / 死者の書 ” – a certain something in the slender margin between the real and the unreal – puppets are things that act, there is no such thing as “doll animation”
I found this very nice obituary article on Japanese puppet trick film master Kawamoto Kihachiro on this BLOG “ANGURA!
Jirí Trnka and Kawamoto Kihachiro, two old (fairly) article by other people (old BFI site)
An article on Jirí Trnka I found on the old BFI website, which as stated (on the site) it is no longer being maintained; but