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More from the Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibition at The Museum of the Moving Image. 

CREDITS: 

• Miss Piggy puppet in the foreground. Credit: Sam Suddaby / Museum of the Moving Image
• Bert and Ernie puppets draw the attention of a young visitor and her guardian in “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” on view at Museum of the Moving Image through March 4, 2012. Credit: Sam Sudaby / Museum of the Moving Image
• Credit: Sam Suddaby / Museum of the Moving Image
• Credit: Sam Suddaby / Museum of the Moving Image
• Jim Henson takes flight in his 1964 Oscar-nominated short film, Time Piece, a surreal, symbolic and satirical look at the human experience and the nature of man. The film is screening continuously in the Video Screening Amphitheater at Museum of the Moving Image.  Credit: (c) 2007 The Jim Henson Company. All Rights Reserved.
• The complicated technology of the drill team mechanical puppets allowed two puppeteers (here, Jim Henson, right, and Jerry Juhl, left, in 1961) to manipulate the whole battalion of soldiers at once. This experimentation laid the groundwork for the interna
  Credit: Photo by Del Ankers. (c) 2007 The Jim Henson Company. All Rights Reserved.
• Henson developed hundreds of characters and designs for commercial purposes, including this wacky bird for Royal Crown Cola in 1966. Credit: ©2007 The Jim Henson Company. All Rights Reserved.
• The whimsical nature of Henson’s ink-and-marker-on-paper sketches of the Frackles for a 1970 television special is inherent in all of his work and evident in the world of Fraggle Rock.
  Credit: Image courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. (c) 2007, The Jim Henson Company

A great reason to get to New York before March - the Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibition.

• Jim Henson’s characters provided an outlet for the various sides of his sense of humor and personality, and Henson always considered Kermit the Frog his alter ego.Credits: John E. Barrett, courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. Kermit the Frog (c)The Muppets Studio, LLC.
• Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog in 1978 on the set of The Muppet Movie.Credit: Photo courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. Kermit the Frog (c) The Muppets Studio, LLC.
• Jim performing Kermit the Frog in the early 1980s. Credit: Photo by Richard Termine, courtesy of The Jim Henson Company. Kermit the Frog © The Muppets Studio, LLC. 
• Originally debuting on The Ed Sullivan Show, the bearded hippie Mahna Mahna and his cow-like back-up singers, the Snowths, went on to become regulars on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. Credit: John E. Barratt. (c)The Muppets Studio, LLC.
• Rowlf the Dog became everyone’s favorite piano player on The Muppet Show. Many of Jim’s Muppet characters, including Rowlf, got their start in ads produced by Jim in the 1960s. Credit: Photo by John E. Barrett. (c) The Muppets Studio, LLC.
• Jim Henson believed that television and film could be used in a positive way to shape the thoughts of children and adults. He populated the neighborhood of Sesame Street with characters such as Bert and Ernie. Credit: Photo by John E. Barrett. TM & © 2007 SesameWorkshop. All Rights Reserved.
• Henson created his award-winning television series, Fraggle Rock, to help promote understanding and tolerance. The wise minstrel Cantus (performed by Jim) made occasional appearances to offer words of advice and song. Gobo is on the right. Credit: Photo by John E. Barrett. (c) The Jim Henson Company. All Rights Reserved. 

I remember this one all too well.

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