Supermarionation (standing for "super marionette animation") is a television and film production puppetry technique using marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires that are connected to internal mechanisms that allow for synchronized mouth movements for dialogue and other functions.
Supermarionation (standing for "super marionette animation") is a puppetry technique devised by the British production company AP Films and used extensively in its numerous children's action-adventure series, the most famous of which is undoubtedly "Thunderbirds". The wires were connected to internal solenoid motors that allowed for synchronized mouth movements for dialogue and other functions.