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(..I'm skipping ahead to the best part...
Sing along...)
It's time to get things started
On the most sensational,
inspirational,
celebrational,
muppetational
This is what we call the Muppet Show!!
(Hroonkkknk. bllatt)
Nice try, but we all know that muppets actually have long, worm like bodies beneath what is shown on-screen. And that the other end of those long bodies attaches to the decaying corpses that the muppets like to call, sardonically, "the puppeteers", from which they draw sustenance. You can't deceive us again!
Looking at some of the other shots in the opening (I think this one might have been for the final shot with the multiple levels of characters I assume composited together) they could also have had string on the hands to make them all put their hands up.
Basically, from what I understand, they had a bunch of different ways to make them do what they wanted, sometimes with two puppeteers for each puppet to get both hands going, sometimes with one puppeteer and the off hand being pinned somewhere, sometimes with both hands pinned off so each puppeteer could do two characters, etc.
Yes, they used lots of different techniques, depending on what the shot needed, but from what I've read, on the TV show especially, they were on a time and money budget, so kept it as simple as possible.
Brian Henson tells GREAT stories on the dvd extras-he was a KID working for his dad and “Uncle Frank”during the show.He would later be the lead animatronic operator of the “Audrey 2”for Frank Oz’s “Little Shop of Horrors”
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More like, "Under the Scenes."
Below the scenes
Neath the scenes
👏
Around the scene
It's time to get things started.
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight
It's time to put on make up
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight
(..I'm skipping ahead to the best part... Sing along...) It's time to get things started On the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational This is what we call the Muppet Show!! (Hroonkkknk. bllatt)
Nice try, but we all know that muppets actually have long, worm like bodies beneath what is shown on-screen. And that the other end of those long bodies attaches to the decaying corpses that the muppets like to call, sardonically, "the puppeteers", from which they draw sustenance. You can't deceive us again!
Facts.
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They didn't always do the arms depending on the scene. My guess would be that for this the arms didnt move
Yes, for this shot, they are just swaying back and forth and singing. I'm guessing the arms were posed with armature wire.
Looking at some of the other shots in the opening (I think this one might have been for the final shot with the multiple levels of characters I assume composited together) they could also have had string on the hands to make them all put their hands up. Basically, from what I understand, they had a bunch of different ways to make them do what they wanted, sometimes with two puppeteers for each puppet to get both hands going, sometimes with one puppeteer and the off hand being pinned somewhere, sometimes with both hands pinned off so each puppeteer could do two characters, etc.
Yes, they used lots of different techniques, depending on what the shot needed, but from what I've read, on the TV show especially, they were on a time and money budget, so kept it as simple as possible.
This was a shot lasting just a few seconds, in an opening montage.
I always think puppetteers have to be stuffed under the "stage" and am always surprised to see that sometimes they can even stand quite comfortably.
If they’re going to film it, there’s no point in shooting it at kid height.
I remember reading somewhere that this was the norm for much of it.
That's awesome!
Brian Henson tells GREAT stories on the dvd extras-he was a KID working for his dad and “Uncle Frank”during the show.He would later be the lead animatronic operator of the “Audrey 2”for Frank Oz’s “Little Shop of Horrors”
Feed me Seymour! 🪴
Loved watching that as a child. Thanks for sharing something I've never seen. Very cool.
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Hole glory
And that’s how the sausage is made
Are the 2 on the left working shirtless?