This project explores the "reality by proxy." world of “what was” as it had existed in old TV and movies of my past, and finding the meaning that connects it to “what is” of small towns America. Much like how the screen marionette players control the shadows being cast on the screen. Television in old movies behaved very much in the same manner by controlling the viewer perceptions and paradigms of the world, through their hyper-reality world that they created.