PuppetVision Archives: The Jim Henson Company

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...

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...

14 Feb 2011 Cee Lo with Puppets at the Grammys

This is one of the most talked-about performances from last night's Grammy Awards, Cee Lo Green channeling Elton John (circa the Muppet Show) and performing with Gweneth Platrow and puppets from the Jim Henson...

18 Jan 2011 The Making of the Nativity Story

This is a few weeks late for Christmas perhaps, but I really liked this behind-the-scenes video for The Nativity Story, which premiered at the Orlando Puppet Festival a few months...

30 Dec 2010 More PG Tips Monkey

The PG Tips Monkey (see previous post) is still at it in the UK. Monkey and Al (played by British comedian Johnny Vegas) is the star of a long-running series of commercials for PG Tips tea. Here are a few of Monkey and Al’s recent commercials: A send-up of When Harry Met Sally. “The Stripper”....

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