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Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

~Jim Henson

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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

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At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

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Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

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I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

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When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: September 24th, 1936

Died: May 16th, 1990

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