The Addamses are a parody of the perfect 20th-century American family: an eccentric, affluent, and macabre family that appear oblivious of or indifferent about how strange or terrifying they are to others. Later, they were transformed into various forms of media, including cinema, television, video games, comic comics, a musical, and merchandise. About half of the 150 separate single-panel cartoons that originally included them were published in The New Yorker over the course of 50 years beginning in 1938. We then added custom stained and aged wood moulding.American artist Charles Addams invented the fictitious Addams family.
We started with a black and white checkerboard tiling for the base. We also created a custom display in a classic style of the iconic Addams Family mansion. We wanted the movie prop to maintain its history. This restoration was all about preserving the piece for the future, not about making it look brand new. There were a couple of indents in his face that were left, since they weren’t a threat to the surrounding material. This way the patches would become virtually invisible.
Restoration artist Maria Teran began by carefully filling in areas that were missing and recreating the texture of the surrounding material. Our goal for this restoration was to gently bring him back to life… to make the prop look “great for its age.” We wanted to fill in any cracks or missing pieces of foam latex to prevent the cracks from getting worse or any more pieces from flaking off of his face. Pubert Addams had some cracks and missing pieces in the foam skin of his forehead and temple. It arrived to our NY studio in need of some TLC in the form of repairs and restoration. This original Addams Family Values prop is life-sized and was used in the film in place of the child actor from time to time.
An original Pubert Addams, Addams Family Values prop puppet.
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