Links
Ben Turney

BLDGBLOG
Boing Boing
Metafilter
Online Photographer

August 24, 2011

It may not be flying, but...

"It's safe to say that no one has ever done a sequence like this in any other film. At least not with a pig."

Jim Henson, in a memo to his staff, regarding shooting the water ballet "Piggy pool" sequence for The Great Muppet Caper, involving, among other preparations, a bubbleless underwater breathing apparatus for puppeteer Frank Oz, a full-size pig costume for the child/actor performing long shots of Miss Piggy diving into the pool, a water choreographer, twelve non-pig swimmers, and a special 50x80x8-foot pool built for the shoot on a soundstage outside London.

Via Jim Henson's Red Book.

Posted by Brenden at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)
home | copyright © 2004-2012 Brenden Kootsey
home | rss/xml | atom
Search This Site


Speaking
EVEN DAN FLAVIN WOULD WANT HIS KIDS TO TURN THE LIGHTS OFF BEFORE LEAVING A ROOM
Jenny Holzer, Mom

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."—Rita Mae Brown

"I had gotten in the door when no one was looking, I was in there now, and there was nothing anybody from then on could ever do about it."—Bob Dylan, in No Direction Home.

"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."—Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record
Thanks in advance
Archives
January 2012
August 2011
March 2011
July 2009
June 2009
March 2009
January 2009
August 2008
June 2008
April 2008
March 2008
December 2007
November 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
January 2007
November 2006
October 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004


Powered by Movable Type.
This is a personal weblog.
Contact: firstname at domainname dot com