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