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Long-Lost Jim Henson Animation Turns Jazz Music Into Something Visual

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Jim Henson may be best known for his puppeteering, but he also created a number of experimental animations, including this one, a visual interpretation of one of jazz great Chico Hamilton’s pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KjJcsMf8OA

The Jim Henson Company recently rediscovered Drums West, one of a number of Henson pieces inspired by Hamilton’s music. Henson created the short in his Bethesda, Maryland, home around 1961, and at the end of this video, the young Henson talks a bit about his process in making the papercut animation.

[via Boing Boing]

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