other puppet studios, and pursued illustrating magazine covers, guide books, and original children's picture books, games, and toys. He designed salons and sophisticated interiors for high-end department stores and restaurants, including the supper club at New York's Waldorf Astoria. He designed extensively for the New York World's Fair, in 1939, creating the fair's official pictorial map, and numerous colorful and modernistic fabrics with World's Fair themes for lady's scarves, handkerchiefs, dresses, table linens, and upholstery, which were sold through Lord & Taylor Department Store. His protégé, Bil Baird, went on to design the puppets featured in the film The Sound of Music. Death On February 17, 1942, Sarg had surgery for a ruptured appendix, and died on March 7, 1942 of complications arising from it. He is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Legacy The Academy Film Archive has preserved several of Tony Sarg's films, including The Original Movie, When the Whale Was Jonahed, Why They Love Cavemen, The First Earful, and Why Adam Walked the Floor. Filmography All films co-animated and produced by Herbert M. Dawley The First Circus (May 8, 1921) The Tooth Carpenter (May 21, 1921) Why They Love Cavemen (July 2, 1921) When The Wale Was Jonahed (August 20, 1921) Fireman, Save My Child (September 11, 1921) The Original Golfer (January 7, 1922) Why Adam Walked the Floor (February 5, 1922) The Original Movie (April 9, 1922) The First Earful (May 29, 1922) Noah Put The Cat Out (July 9, 1922) The First Degree (July 29, 1922) The First Barber (August 27, 1922) Baron Bragg and the Devilish Dragon (September 24, 1922) The First Flivver (October 22, 1922) The Ogling Ogre (November 19, 1922) Baron Bragg and the Haunted Castle (December 17, 1922) The Terrible Tree (January 14,1923) See also Bernard H. Paul Tony Sarg: Illustrator and Puppeteer article by Michael Mullen, Movable Stationery (newsletter of the Movable Book Society), v.3, n3, April 1995, pages 1-2. Profile and outline of Sarg's mechanical books. References 2007. "FANFAIR - 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE - Life Sketches -- Tony Sarg's New York Illustrations. The Cultural Divide. Elissa Schappell's Hot Type. My Stuff -- Lauren Bush; A. M. Homes on Lillys New Men's Wear. Krista Smith Exposes the Hotties of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhous; Bruce Handy Warms Up to Hot Fuzz. Matt Tymauer Has Designs on Moss. Graham Fuller Reviews the Edith