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16 May 2013 Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog

Jim Henson passed away twenty-three years ago today; remembering and celebrating his life and work every May 16th has become something of a...

16 Aug 2012 Caroll Spinney with Oscar the Grouch

This is some wonderful never-before-released video of Jim Henson recounting the now-famous story of how he recruited Caroll Spinney to play Big Bird at a Puppeteers of America convention in...

27 Jan 2012 1983 Interview with Jim Henson

I stumbled across this online while doing some research earlier this week; it's an excerpt from a CBC interview with Jim Henson taped on the set of Fraggle Rock in 1983....

25 Jan 2012 AT&T discovers “lost” Jim Henson film

This is a nearly 50 year old film produced by Jim Henson that was recently rediscovered and released online by AT&T. Robot is one Jim Henson’s business films from the 1960s, it was shot in 1963 for an elite seminar organized for business owners on the then-brand-new topic of Data Communications. From the video’s YouTube...

23 Sep 2011 Puppeteering the Jim Henson Google Doodle

Tomorrow would have been the 75th birthday of Jim Henson. To help celebrate his life and career Google has teamed up with the Jim Henson Company. If you visit the Google Homepage tonight or tomorrow you’ll see a special “Google Doodle” featuring six digital puppets that you can perform using your mouse and keyboard. It’s...

02 Sep 2011 jim-henson

Henson & Oz: Never Before, Never Again is a video essay about Jim Henson and Frank Oz from the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. A nice tribute to two men who were truly one of the greatest comedy teams of the 20th...

21 Aug 2011 The Muppets at D23

Muppets, movie clips and a live puppetry demonstration...there was a lot of puppet-related stuff to see at Disney's D23 Expo this...

16 May 2011 Remembering Jim Henson

Mondays here are usually devoted to "Monday Morning Inspiration" and it's hard to get much more inspirational than the man himself, Jim Henson. Today is May 16th, the anniversary of Jim's unexpected and tragic passing in...

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