” …. The career of Jim Henson begins long before “The Muppet Show.” “He did hundreds of television commercials in the 1960s,” says Karen Falk, Director of Archives for the Jim Henson Company [What a job!]. “Many of them could stand alone as comic strips. They were very charming.”…..
Falk, who says she was a big fan of The Muppet Show, is one of the few who have been able to pull back the curtain, if you will, and see everything Jim Henson had his hands on.
“When I started going through these files, I realized ‘Oh my gosh, we really need to get this stuff out there,'” Falk recalls from her early days on the job. “People will really want to see this.”….”
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