Showing posts with label jim henson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jim henson. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Of Muppets and Men: the Making of the Muppet Show (1981)



A behind the scenes doc with the puppeteering involved in the making of Jim Henson's Muppet Show. Beautiful stuff.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Muppet Musicians of Bremen



This 1972 program of the Brothers Grim story really disoriented me as a kid, and revisiting it I can see why. The people's faces are eerily realistic and its creepy the way they jump around, appropriate for a story where you identify more with the animals. It left a strong impression on me, and I remember going through a phase where I really wanted to track it down. That was before youtube, and now that I'm reading Brian Jay Jones excellent new biography of Jim Henson I looked it up. Tadow! It's here. Funny how it's from way before I would've seen it. I thought it was going to be from the 80's.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Charlie Magnetico



This is a film that Jim Henson made for a Bell Data Communications Seminar in 1963.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Muppet Show -- Puppet Man




Been hearing this Fifth Dimension song at work and while looking it up, discovered this little guy.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Floating Face 10



Last night I saw a program of Jim Henson advertisements and short films, Commercials & Experiments, that was projected on film and looked really great, especially Time Piece. It was at SIFF's new cinema, the reopened Uptown, and screens again tonight at 9:15.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Muppet Show - Pilot


the style of the show is different for the pilot. sketches are shorter and intercut. and Kermit is played by Nigel.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Jim Henson



that fraggle rock episode i saw at steve's place, it made me wonder how much of my childhood entertainment was made by mind-altered beatnik hippies. this short from '65 is an art film made by Henson between commercial projects and muppet stuff. are the children today being told to listen to stalactites ? that's what happened in the fraggle rock show