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I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim Henson
Production
Television
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson
Design
Acting
Theatre
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson
Competition
Friends
Sense
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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Difference
England
I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
Jim Henson
Right
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
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England
Pretty
And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.
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Money
Television
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
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People
Character
Months
Quick
Talking
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson
Realism
Reality
Sense
Trying
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Jim Henson
Time
Opinion
Respect
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
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Information
Talk
It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
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People
Symbol
Trying
Will
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
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Difference
Programming
Right
Trying
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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Art
Design
First
Planning
Television
Theatre
University
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson
Key