Adam Savage Visits Jim Henson’s Archives!

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  • @tested
    @tested  Год назад +7

    Puppet Up! has NEW DATES! Buy tickets here: puppetup.com/shows
    The Jim Henson Legacy: jimhensonlegacy.org/index.php
    Adam Savage Attempts Puppeteering with The Henson Company! ruclips.net/video/sf-i8kn9sJE/видео.html
    Making Puppets at Jim Henson's Creature Shop: ruclips.net/video/L6BRAthTshQ/видео.html
    More on Puppet Up: puppetup.com/

  • @its_zack9038
    @its_zack9038 Год назад +55

    As an engineering student and a maker I have come to two realizations A) you never stop making you're always thinking about your current project B) how much art and science truly meld into one awesome amalgam. Thank you Adam

  • @TheLiviaTriple
    @TheLiviaTriple Год назад +20

    I had the pleasure of meeting Karen, about two weeks ago, at an event in Manhattan. She’s a truly warm and passionate soul. Thank you for letting her share her wealth of knowledge!

    • @tested
      @tested  Год назад +7

      She is SO amazing. We could have been there for hours.

  • @greenatom
    @greenatom Год назад +15

    Jim Henson was such a natural, genuinely fun genius.

  • @ydoIhavetohaveachann
    @ydoIhavetohaveachann Год назад +30

    I’m so excited for all this Jim Henson content!

  • @SweIceMan
    @SweIceMan Год назад +24

    Considering the fact that Adam's dad worked on sesame street i was half expecting them to pull out some of his original work. Would be cool to see that, and Adam's reaction to it.

  • @njones420
    @njones420 Год назад +58

    I wonder how many people know "the Muppet Show" was essentially a British production ... Produced by Lew Grade for Associate television in 1976, that's why you have so many Brits involved with it in the early days (John cleese, Peter Ustinov, Bruce Forsyth, Twiggy, etc etc) . It was filmed at Elstree Studios in the UK, and made to look "American" :)

    • @natethegr8230
      @natethegr8230 Год назад +6

      The two old dudes up in the balcony (I could google the names to look like I know what I'm talking about)as a kid watching when they first aired, they were so funny and their heckling stands up over time.

    • @archivist17
      @archivist17 Год назад +5

      ​@@natethegr8230Statler & Waldorf

    • @gregorysharp
      @gregorysharp Год назад +1

      What did Twiggy do? How do I not know this! I need to know. ❤

    • @gloriouslyimperfect
      @gloriouslyimperfect Год назад +2

      This is because they couldn’t find producers and funding here in the states.

    • @brockpifer9929
      @brockpifer9929 Год назад +1

      @@gloriouslyimperfectit’s just the American networks the main ones weren’t interested and wouldn’t pick it up. They did 2 pilots for ABC, the first one they liked and the second one they lost interest. It’s like first time you had them second time you lost them 😂

  • @stevenelliott631
    @stevenelliott631 Год назад +36

    Jim Henson was such a visionary for child and adult entertainment. I loved the labayrnth and dark crystal. And of courses the muppets. Thanks Tested for doing these shorts eps about the Jim Henson company. 😀

    • @alhutchison1535
      @alhutchison1535 Год назад +6

      I picked up The Labyrinth on DVD a couple weeks ago at a used entertainment store, first time I'd seen the movie in at least 30-yeras.

  • @annwagner5779
    @annwagner5779 Год назад +2

    We graduates of the University of Maryland are so proud that Jim Henson studied there! They did a great show of his student art work years ago. Still remember it with love! ❤

  • @milosterwheeler2520
    @milosterwheeler2520 Год назад +18

    Henson was a creative genius and the heart of the Muppets. After his passing, the Muppets lost some of their sweet innocence and timelessness - the jokes became just a little coarser and tied more to today. How I love Jim's Kermit and Frank's Fozzy.

    • @robertdouble559
      @robertdouble559 Год назад +2

      Uh Huh. So Mark Hammil, Debbie Harry etc being on the Muppet show at the height of their and The Muppets fame wasn't tied to it's time? Piggy's sexual urges were there from day one too.

  • @shubinternet
    @shubinternet Год назад +1

    @4:34 -- I love the binder clip holding on the mic pack! That's a genius idea!

  • @newq
    @newq Год назад +8

    Jim Henson was a genius.

  • @babbagebrassworks4278
    @babbagebrassworks4278 Год назад +1

    A few lines on paper creates a character that is identifiable as a Henson puppet. Extraordinary talent that was refined to maximum expression with minimal drawing. A true genius.

  • @spiercephotography
    @spiercephotography Год назад +4

    I am so jealous of you, Adam, (i think i said it on a previous video too) to be able to see and experience all these Henson/Muppet/Puppeteering things! They have given so many of us (especially me) laughter and joy. Jim (and the people who worked around him) sure was something special

  • @TheMysticSaint
    @TheMysticSaint Год назад

    Jim Henson was one of the greatest humans of all time, in my opinion. Thanks for giving us this look inside his inner workings.

  • @NotJohnnyTamale
    @NotJohnnyTamale Год назад +4

    Always a good day when a new Tested video comes out.

  • @darrenhemingway7121
    @darrenhemingway7121 Год назад +3

    The sketches introduced at 7:35 are identical to the muppets used in a sketch from the muppet show. I remember its original showing with one singing “you are my sunshine” while being repeatedly gassed by the other puppet.

  • @DerrickBoundsMusic
    @DerrickBoundsMusic Год назад +1

    I found Jim Henson's business card about 15 years ago. Circa 1960s or 70s perhaps. What a visionary

  • @Sometimes_Always
    @Sometimes_Always Год назад +1

    Gosh..I must've watched The Dark Crystal at least a dozen times as a kid. I didn't make the realization until much, much later when I heard about his passing. I was barely in HS at the time all those years ago...
    He passed away far too soon but what an amazing legacy he left for the rest of us...

  • @UncleAimee
    @UncleAimee Год назад +2

    Wow, I haven’t heard that voice in almost 20 years and she hasn’t aged a day! Go Karen!

  • @owenw.7904
    @owenw.7904 Год назад +1

    i love the slight wall-eyed thousand yard stares. hope to be able to capture that in some doodles

  • @CinnamonWilson
    @CinnamonWilson Год назад +2

    What a wonderful look at this truly precious stuff. The Muppets and Sesame Street were such a big part of my childhood.

  • @ibanezleftyclub
    @ibanezleftyclub Год назад +3

    There should be a museum for all this stuff.

    • @jennparent2293
      @jennparent2293 Год назад +1

      Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta has a large collection of Henson materials on display.

  • @alansmith4734
    @alansmith4734 Год назад +4

    Jim Henson did the SciFi Show, Farscape*!
    * The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment. The Jim Henson Company was responsible for the various alien make-up and prosthetics, and two regular characters (the animatronic puppets Rygel and Pilot) are entirely Creature Shop creations.

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson Год назад

      One of my all time favorite science fiction shows. :) The Creature Shop characters are 100% part of the main cast. Quite interesting! I’m not sure if any other “serious” show for adults has ever used puppets as main characters.

    • @queenmedesa
      @queenmedesa 10 месяцев назад

      I love Rygel

  • @suegeorge8694
    @suegeorge8694 Год назад +1

    The drawing of the little girl puppet made me think of Prarie Dawn.

  • @caspertayari8841
    @caspertayari8841 Год назад

    unreal!!! would love to see more from the archive!

  • @Perfect1583
    @Perfect1583 Год назад

    I love how the genius that is Adam is obsessed with puppets. ❤❤❤❤

  • @THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW
    @THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW 8 месяцев назад

    Such an amazing collection.

  • @JacobPatrick1
    @JacobPatrick1 Год назад

    I like how she gives credit to other creatives involved.

  • @TJRohyans
    @TJRohyans Год назад

    One of my dream jobs when I was younger was to work at the "Creature Shop". Never happened, but I would still love it.

  • @leicean
    @leicean 3 месяца назад

    As a history student who wants to go into archives and loves puppets, I will be doing ANYTHING I CAN to get my fingies on a job here

  • @evancrew1234
    @evancrew1234 Год назад +1

    8:15 that interruption was a trainwreck

  • @Shadoweclipse1386
    @Shadoweclipse1386 Год назад

    Ms Falk, if you are seeing this, you guys should seriously put out a book with pictures from the Henson archives. I think it would sell very well ❤ Even a DVD/Blu-ray of the early skits before The Muppet Show!!

  • @custos3249
    @custos3249 Год назад +3

    7:35 you keep showing that puppet, so I'm guessing ya don't see it. Makes it so much funnier! Even has a reservoir tip.

  • @legitimatehumanbeing8746
    @legitimatehumanbeing8746 Год назад +1

    3:59 she was not happy with Adam touching the paper...

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Год назад

    Thank you.

  • @jccw227
    @jccw227 Год назад +1

    Always down for puppet related content

  • @joycef4245
    @joycef4245 Год назад +1

    Does anyone know where one could attain a print or downloadable version of the drawing from 5:32?

  • @franbrill5205
    @franbrill5205 Год назад

    Fantastic job, Karen! Fran B

  • @queenmedesa
    @queenmedesa 10 месяцев назад

    So cute !

  • @jamesl1130
    @jamesl1130 Год назад

    Wonderful items

  • @FreejackVesa
    @FreejackVesa Год назад

    Fascinating

  • @nerdful1
    @nerdful1 Год назад +1

    Around the 9:30 min, the chars on the right look like some out of the PC game Commander Keen.

  • @samp.8099
    @samp.8099 Год назад +2

    1:10 Won't Disney even let them say the name "Kermit"? Geez

    • @custos3249
      @custos3249 Год назад

      Given they're the single greatest litigious force behind current archaic and egregious copyright laws, nope

    • @josieMayday
      @josieMayday Год назад

      they say it later in the video-i think she said it like that bc the bit has been done with different characters

    • @queenmedesa
      @queenmedesa 10 месяцев назад

      Screw Disney, they can stick to their woke crap

  • @robertdouble559
    @robertdouble559 Год назад

    Henson owes a good chunk of that monster aesthetic to Maurice Sendak.

  • @camrynhamme
    @camrynhamme Год назад +2

    It’s so weird hearing that Jim had big hands, I saw his hand prints at Hollywood studios and Disney world and ours are the exact same size. And after making my own Kermit puppet awhile back it’s good to know that it’s to scale since mine fit inside.

  • @martydworkis12345
    @martydworkis12345 Год назад

    The new and improved business business creatures are originally from Jim Henson’s inspired silliness on sky princess

  • @DanielWhatnot
    @DanielWhatnot Год назад

    I love that moment when I was young by 2019, when a skull ates the pink mask and tried to eat a Muppet woman singer with her leg, and in the Glow-Worm, a creature had ate two worms 🐛, and he saw a larger nose 👃, he is eating it and pulling it, and he pulls the bigger nose which transformed into a giant purple monster with a gigantic nose, and the monster 👿 eats the creature and the creature was never seen again, just like The Ed Sullivan Show.

  • @candyjams8416
    @candyjams8416 Год назад +1

    Making of piano monster from muppets would be cool idea

  • @nathkrupa3463
    @nathkrupa3463 Год назад

    Nice video sir

  • @invox9490
    @invox9490 Год назад +1

    It amazes me that Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon (don't know about Disnay+ but I think it's the same), with so much teen soap-operas there isn't One with puppets... Not ONE! 😓

  • @v_zach
    @v_zach Год назад +1

    Only pre-Sesame Street material so far. Fingers crossed for a Part 2 and beyond. 🤞

  • @candyjams8416
    @candyjams8416 Год назад +1

    What if piano monster from muppet segment music hath charms would be redesigned

  • @lynnstone6998
    @lynnstone6998 Год назад

  • @VipersCave1
    @VipersCave1 Год назад +1

    Sometimes I feel like a puppet/muppet

    • @darkblades1201
      @darkblades1201 Год назад

      Are you a puppet of a man? Or a man of a Muppet?

  • @muffinman4353
    @muffinman4353 Год назад

    Long live the magic of Jim Henson.....

  • @billbucktube
    @billbucktube Год назад

    💛👍

  • @MarcHendry
    @MarcHendry Год назад

    more 1964 World's Fair lore for defunctland viewers

  • @Sairin13
    @Sairin13 Год назад

    I see a lot of really talented people walking around not drinking Wilkins coffee, don't they know how dangerous that can be?

    • @queenmedesa
      @queenmedesa 10 месяцев назад

      Funny thing is Jim Henson didn't like coffee!

  • @ChloetheGaymer
    @ChloetheGaymer Год назад +3

    I'm hoping Adam gets to see the FNAF movie props I feel like he would love the suits and animatronics

  • @petermgruhn
    @petermgruhn Год назад +1

    Because, yeah, Henson wasn't a driven businessman.

  • @doctoribanez
    @doctoribanez Год назад +1

    I have always loved the Muppets. Seaseme street characters were ok but always were second place to me

  • @bawdybroad
    @bawdybroad Год назад

    A mean looking Grover seems so foreign to what he evolved into.

  • @marcussweden8521
    @marcussweden8521 Год назад +4

    Great content, but ADAM try to keep your enthusiasm in check. Don't interrupt so much. Let the subject talk and tell the story!

  • @natethegr8230
    @natethegr8230 Год назад +1

    Yup yup yup yup
    Yup yup yup yup
    Uh huh uh huh

  • @Greg_Koenig
    @Greg_Koenig Год назад +1

    Where are the one day builds??

  • @Shinzon23
    @Shinzon23 Год назад

    Jim henson died of easily treatable pneumonia...

  • @AdDewaard-hu3xk
    @AdDewaard-hu3xk Год назад

    A good interviewer would stop talking on occasion.

  • @greghimm2753
    @greghimm2753 Год назад

    The camera person was like 7ft away saying, “don’t want to interrupt your conversation. I can see it from all the way over here.” Someone, please let the camera person get closer to the photos. And get the person a gimbal.

  • @thebongmaster
    @thebongmaster Год назад

    Been Loving this whole Henson series :)

  • @Die.Trying
    @Die.Trying Год назад

    These early drawings remind me of the how to train your dragon art work