Movies: Jim Henson

Leo is happy to have a meal break, but Grump verbally assaults the food....

This unaired pilot, produced by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, was shot in Atlanta in the summer of 1962. The pilot featured Kermit the Frog, Taminella Grinderfall and King Goshposh, characters who would all reappear a few years later in the Tales From M...

CAT AND MOUSE is Jim Henson’s second and more ambitious interpretation of a composition from jazz drummer Chico Hamilton whom Jim met and collaborated with in 1961. This short, imbued with sly humor, portrays a brief narrative of the dance performed ...

Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets was released by Playhouse Video in 1985, as part of a series of compilations featuring songs and sketches from The Muppet Show. In this one hour special, Rowlf the Dog presents a compilation of his best numbers an...

Basil, Louis the otter, Dodi the green adventurer and Elmo the furry red monster go camping and after Basil hears a noise, embark on a medieval adventure....

Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind's eye of an architect as he considers his next project....

Rowlf the Dog joins IBM as a salescanine, in three parts (and a conclusion)....

An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton....

A young boy ponders the marvel of wheels....

An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip, shot by Jim Henson with puppets built by Don Sahlin....

The Idea Man is a three minute short film by Jim Henson which was used for a live performance with Limbo on The Mike Douglas Show on July 20, 1966. The film has featured in various screenings of vintage Henson material without the Limbo performance s...

"Doll House" is a Sesame Street song about the number 2. The song features vocals by Juli Christman, and is accompanied with a live-action film by Jim Henson about two girls (played by Sumiko Kimura and Alison von Brock) playing with their doll house...

The presentation by Jim Henson that started it all....

In a mix of puppetry and animation, Harry demonstrates the Art of Visual Thinking to Kermit—and what it does to you once it gets out of control....

Sure we’re interested in Jim Henson’s work as a filmmaker and creative innovator, but his brilliant talents as a performer are often overlooked. As a puppeteer, he created such indelible characters as Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Ernie, and the Sw...

I'm Nobody is a film created by Jim Henson consisting of city crowds shot from the shoulders, up, and slightly blurred with slow dissolves. The film plays behind the performance by Limbo who sings a song about not being noticed....

A group of twelve rocks remove themselves from a crowd and are counted out, before taking the shape of a numeral 12....

The Queen of Six is a stop-motion animated short produced for Sesame Street by Jim Henson. Similar to "The King of Eight," the short focuses on the domain of the Queen of 6, wherein everything exists in denominations of 6....

The King of Eight is a 1970 short film produced for Sesame Street by Jim Henson, using stop-motion animation. The 70-second short film focuses on the title character, the jovial king (voiced by Jim Henson) of a land where everything exists in denomin...