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Jim Henson and other puppeteers prepare and rehearse with ‘The Muppets’ characters

A feature on Jim Henson, creator of 'The Muppets'. The Muppets characters such as the Cookie Monster, Grover, and Herry Monster on display. Big Bird smiling. Oscar the Grouch hiding behind a tree. Cookie Monster holding an A-shaped cookie. The Muppets creator Jim Henson rehearses a Sesame Street sketch as Ernie. Another puppeteer playing as Simon Soundman rehearse alongside Jim Henson in front of a mirror. Jim Henson talks to a colleague beside a woman inside his Manhattan office. “It seems to me that it might be better to use the little guy Harvey Muskrat (sic) for that part” Jim Henson told his colleague. Puppet designers working at the Jim Henson Company studio. A female puppet designer adjusts the dress of Ma Otter from ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’. Another female designer cuts fabric from her desk. A female puppeteer moves the head of a Muppet puppet. Jim Henson performs as Emmet Otter from the Muppets movie ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ (1977). Emmet Otter tells a joke to a woman, making her laugh. A puppet designer works to animate Ma Otter. Animatronics control Ma Otter as she uses a sewing machine. Emmet Otter rowing a boat. A puppet designer operates animatronics to make Emmet Otter move. Emmet Otter’s head moving automatically. The Howard Snake from ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ moving his mouth. Jim Henson, producers, and puppeteers attend a script read-through. Jim Henson holding Fred Lizard. Puppeteers rehearse as the ‘Riverbottom Nightmare Band’ Muppets. Jim Henson performs as Howard Snake.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1977
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080181
Christmas shopping at the E. J. Korvette store in New York; Operation Christmas Star airlifts gifts to Vietnam.

Shoppers at the E. J. Korvette store at 45th street in New York City. Santa Claus stands in front of the store, ringing a bell to raise money for the Volunteers of America. In the store, children play with toys under a sign reading 'Toyland.' Views of the store while riding down the escalator. A woman dressed in a fur coat shops in the housewares department. In Concord, California, college students pack gifts that are being sent to United States soldiers fighting war in Vietnam. View of entrance to Travis Air Force Base. The workers for Operation Christmas Star load gifts for the GIs into a Douglas C-124 Globemaster cargo plane at Travis Air Force Base. Students watch as the plane takes off. (Vietnam War period).

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1965, December 7
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056319
Nine black students enter Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, following desegregation, under protection of the U.S. Army

View of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas. Former student, Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine African American students who integrated the school in 1957, is revisiting the school. View of integrated student track and field team practicing.View of the front of the school. Flashback scenes of the "Little Rock Nine," black students trying to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Police officer keeping back jeering local students. Racial fighting breaks out among people watching the event, and police try to maintain order. African American students unable to enter school while white students enter and police stand by despite federal school integration orders. Scene returns to 1964 briefly and then back to September 27, 1957, when on orders from President Eisenhower, a company of U.S. Army soldiers marches up takes up positions at the school. They set up barricades, maintain order, and provide armed escort for the nine black students entering school. The nine students enter army station wagons and drive to school accompanied by soldiers in an army jeep.Views of people mingling around the school as U.S. Army soldiers stand amongst them.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas United States USA
Date: 1957
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024010
Dwight D Eisenhower visits nuclear submarine, USS Seawolf (SSN-575) at Newport, Rhode Island

U.S. nuclear submarine, USS Seawolf (SSN-575) in bay near Newport, Rhode Island. President Eisenhower standing on deck with group of Naval officers. The American flag and the President's ensign fly from the boat. President Eisenhower descends through a hatch. He greets members of the crew and tours the boat. He observes crewmen at their duty stations. He cuts a cake, with "Commander in Chief" written on it. The cook serves the cake. President Eisenhower dines in the Crew's Mess. With him are Chief Hospital Corpsman Milton W. Tucker, USN; Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty and Seaman Apprentice W.J. Dooling. The President climbs out of the submarine on to the deck.

Location: Newport Rhode Island USA
Date: 1957, December 26
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073198
Simulation of a jet crash in a residential area during the Third Annual Fire Chief Steel Conference in Long Island, New York.

The Third Annual Fire Chief Steel Conference in Long Island, New York. Simulation of a jet crash in a residential area. Emphasis on latest methods of coping with blazing jet fuel. Heavy columns of smoke rise up from the wrecked aircraft. The firemen douse the fire with fire hoses.

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1957, May 30
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077120
The Pre-Christmas parade during Christmas celebrations in New York City in 1946.

Crowds watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with many big helium-inflated balloon floats in New York City. A panda balloon float passes by. A pilgrim balloon float besides a Camel billboard. View of crowd and parade floats in Times Square. Young girls wearing frilly dresses waving from an eagle shaped float. Girls watching the parade. Animated lion with his master in a boat. People in costume dance and a big ice cream shaped float goes by. Other floats include a Pilgrim, a baseball player (modified Bobo the Hobo), a Panda bear, and a candy cane. People watch the parade and cheer. Santa Claus wave from a decorative float.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1946, November 28
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021136
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