Jim Henson’s Animated Universes

Some Thoughts on Animated Embodiment in “Muppet Babies: Play Date”

by Timothy Jones • July 23, 2019 • 5 Comments

Forty years after the release of The Muppet Movie (dir. James Frawley) in June 1979, it seems fitting to celebrate the lasting contribution of Jim Henson to puppet animation by considering the Muppet Babies: Play Date shorts on YouTube in…

by Tim Butler Garrett • July 8, 2019 • 0 Comments

Jim Henson’s 1986 production Labyrinth holds a special place in the Henson canon (as well as in the hearts of many children of the 1980s). Its inception came after one of the first critical misfires of Henson’s film career, the…

by Samuel Kaczorowski • July 1, 2019 • 1 Comment

After the end of World War II, in all the nations where television had a swift boom, puppets largely invaded the small screen to satisfy an increasingly younger audience eager for fantasy and adventure. While in the 1960s, live action…

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Jim Henson’s Animated Universes

Some Thoughts on Animated Embodiment in “Muppet Babies: Play Date”

by Timothy Jones • July 23, 2019 • 5 Comments

Labyrinth

by Tim Butler Garrett • July 8, 2019 • 0 Comments

The French Reinterpretation of Jim Henson’s Muppet Universe

by Samuel Kaczorowski • July 1, 2019 • 1 Comment