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…
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…
I want to compare the path of interpretation of stop-motion films, which takes into account invisible meanings conveyed by visible and indirectly tangible material features of puppets, with the set of tools theorized in the field of product design in…
