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American Express commercial with Jim Henson

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I just found the old American Express commercial with Jim Henson yesterday on YouTube, and watched it several times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skor2mwvAAw
This one is more complete at the beginning, with Floyd's full quick closeup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Pma0SK_y8
While this one is overall a higher quality.

Some observations...

There's a photo of the Season One Miss Piggy to camera-right of the window.

The proto-Strangepork puppet has a 'live hand' to put on his hat.

And I think Scooter and Green Frackle were being performed simultaneously by one puppeteer. Concentrate on them and you can see that they often move in parallel.

Alex
 
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