Jim Henson collection

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Jim Henson collection

1955-1998

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1217

The Jim Henson collection at the University of Maryland contains 75 digital videos spanning 35 years of Henson's innovative work in television and film. These full-length videos can be found at http://digital.lib.umd.edu/henson/ and are available for viewing only at public computer stations in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, McKeldin Library, and Hornbake Library. The collection results from a generous gift by The Jane Henson Foundation and The Jim Henson Legacy of select videos and funding to support processing and related projects.

75 items

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6326623

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Henson, Jim, 1936-1990

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James Maury Henson, better known as Jim Henson, (b. September 24, 1936, Greenville, Mississippi–d. May 16, 1990, New York, New York), American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, film director and producer who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets. He began developing puppets while attending high school, then while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, he created Sam and Friends, a five-minute sketch-comedy puppet show that appeared...