Tony Sarg created the first balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927. One of his inaugural inflatables is being recreated this year. by Allison Meier November 23, 2016 November 23 ...

Sarg, a charismatic illustrator, animator, puppeteer, designer, entrepreneur and showman was once a known name — celebrated as the father of modern puppetry in North America, he also was the innovator ...

Tony Sarg (inset) invented the ballons (seen here in 1930) that New Yorkers still enjoy today. (AP)Balloons over Broadway The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet ...

Since 2017, Miller is a Fellow of the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, and is co-curator of Tony Sarg: Genius at Play. Click here to register. Attendees will receive a link to join the ...

Tony Sarg is pictured painting his balloon puppets. Rather than being controlled from the top down, Sarg's floating giant puppets—which became a mainstay of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ...

The show-stopping figure of the parade was the 60-foot dinosaur, escorted by a tribe of cavemen.” That dinosaur seems to have originated in one of Tony Sarg’s cartoons, which played Cincinnati’s ...

Tony Sarg, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade artistic director, is the man that spawned the idea of giant parade balloons.

Illustrator and puppeteer Tony Sarg, who created the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, is the subject of an on-going exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.

The video, taken on Nov. 17, was inspired by the Melissa Sweet book “Balloons over Broadway,” which follows Tony Sarg, the puppeteer whose talent and imagination helped the first Macy’s ...

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.