1.
Introduction
“
Mud!
On
the banks of the filthy river, camouflaged in the thick grey mud, they live
a hidden life - or so folks around here claim. They are the mud people, and
it is in
On the Trail of the Mud Men.
I
too in the end found myself on the trail of these mud men. Get a bunch of
slimy little river people (Newport Mud Men to the layman) to march past the
screen and seem convincing and startlingly real. That was my eventual challenge.
This
report describes the stages I went through as I moved from my original idea
towards trying to discover how to best make the Mud Men a reality.