Google doodles for the Muppets

Jim Henson, the man behind The Muppet Show and Sesame Street would have turned 75 today and Google's celebrating him with a Doodle. Henson was born on the 24th of September, 1936 in Mississippi in the United States. In 1954, while he was still in school, he worked for a local tv station making puppets for a morning show. After graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in home economics (which introduced him to the various materials he could use to build puppets) he created a five minute puppet show for television, Sam and Friends, which would have prototypes of some of the Muppets he would later make, including Kermit the Frog. He also evolved the way puppets were built, thinking that puppets in television needed more 'life and sensitivity'. He started using foam rubber to build puppets, which would allow a greater number of expression in comparison to the traditionally used wood. He also used rods to manipulate the limbs of his puppets which would allow for more movement control compared to the traditionally used string.

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