A craftsman is making a puppet. He is working at different fittings as he creates his boy puppet. When he finishes making it, he turns it around and studies the key in the back of him. It refuses to work and he cannot understand what he has done wrong. Something is wrong, no matter how tight he winds the puppet, it will not move. He takes out the key and throws it on the floor in disgust. He turns off the lights and leaves the workshop.
The camera will now focus on a beam of light that is focussing on the key on the floor. Within the light a fairy is seen, the fairy lifts the key and the key changes to gold and the fairy disappears.
At Sunrise the craftsman comes back into the workshop and begins to tidy up the splinters etc from the night before. He comes to the key and realises that the key has changed, he had not been working with a gold key. The man picks it up and tries it in the back of the puppet, he leaves it sitting as it is still not working. As he moves away he notices that the right arm is twitching, then, the left arm moving, suddenly the puppet is on its feet. The puppet lifts its head, looks at the man and opens his eyes. Then the puppet begins to dance, slapping various parts of his body in time to his feet. The puppet moves about and begins to touch the other puppets in the room, suddenly they all come to life and all begin to dance.
The puppets move along touching all the other toys in the workshop and all the characters come to life. The man looks at what is happening and begins to get afraid. The puppets and toys surround him pushing at him and he eventually falls down to the ground. The toys and puppets immediately, rush over to him and begin to lift him. At each part of his body they put the string in place and make him into a puppet. The man is now a puppet and is sat on a stage like area with the rest of the toys etc sitting in front of him like an audience. The curtains at each side of him give the illusion of a stage and the man is then made to dance, just like a performing puppet.
A ball is pushed on stage and the man is made to dangle above it, in entertainment for the audience. The curtains close quickly and then re-open, the man is then seen attached to a wheel of life with a blindfolded puppet throwing knives at him. Again the curtains close, next time they open the knife throwing puppet has changed his dress to look like a magic man. The craftsman is standing in a cage, still attached to the strings and the cage is covered with a cloak. The puppet does his magic, a bra,ca da bra, he pulls of the cloak and the man has disappeared!
The puppet proceeds to take off his really tall hat, taps it with his wand but the wand bends, he tries to repeat the process with another wand ,this time, something has happened. He looks in the hat and pulls out a rabbit which he throws away, than another rabbit, then another rabbit. He turns the hat upside down and starts tapping it. A snake, falls out, a frog falls out and after a really hard shake, the man falls out. The puppet takes a bow, all the audience claps and the curtains close.
They open again to find the puppet pushing a pool of water forward onto the stage. The man is hanging from above and standing behind him is the puppet dressed as a pirate, prodding the man to walk the plank into the water. He prods the man until he falls off the plank but fortunately, he quickly grabs onto the ropes and stops himself at the last minute ,falling into the water. He swings himself forward and catches the sword of the pirate puppet and quickly cuts his strings, becoming free. He drops unto the stage and tries to catch the puppet who is shocked and is running away. The man knows that he needs to get the key off him. The curtains close.
The curtains open, the man is there and he looks at the audience and wonders why are they clapping. The puppet comes on stage bringing a cannon with him. He proceeds to strike a match and lights the cannon. The man rushes to cover his face as the cannon fires, thankfully, instead the expected explosion ,the cannon ball just drops at his feet. He looks at it and looks at the puppet who has a look of disgust on his face. The curtains close.
They open ,with the puppet now in the guise of a woman, dressed and dancing the can can. He is accompanied then by other puppets dressed the same who enter into the same dance line. At this stage the man is just off stage, being linked at the arms by other puppets. They dance on stage and the man is forced to do the same, as he cannot get free. The music finishes with the puppets performing a great finale of jumps and finishing splits, the curtains close.
On opening again, the puppet appears as a cowboy, as does the man. They are at centre stage, back to back and begin to walk apart, one, two , three, turn and shoot. However ,the dual ends not in bloodshed but in flags dropping from the guns saying, ‘ boom’. The puppet now tries to run away, however the man has an idea, he throws his rope and catches him in the noose and begins to pull the puppet towards him. Eventually he gets a hold of the puppet who struggles continuously. The man quickly and skilfully grabs hold of the key in his back and pulls it out, immediately the puppet begins to grow limp. He looks at the audience and they also have become limp. The man falls on the floor in exhaustion, he cannot believe that he has finally separated the key and the puppet.
To ensure that this will not happen again , the man places the puppet and the key into a box, separately however, and leaves the room. Meanwhile the door goes in the workshop and a boy comes in and starts to look around. He finds the box and looks with interest at the puppet and the key. He decides since no one is around that he will steal both of these and so leaves the workshop in a hurry. The man now returns to the workshop as he is now ready to bury the box, but where is it?
He looks all around the shop but can’t find it.
The boy is now seen going into his own home, taking the puppet from the box and placing the key into his back. As he begins to wind, the scene is cut!
