nuc kermit's face move or the other -- when you see kermit's face move or the other muppets, in the actual design of these characters. >> his real genius in puppets on television is he figured out two things. first of all, if you are on television, the to -- the puppet has to be expressive and you have to have a mouth that moves and eyes a look focus. he figured i'd have to design and build puppets that look like that. but the two things that he did that seemed natural in our same little mole -- or seem normal is that you don't need a puppeteer. he would just film the puppet show. jim decided and realized early on you don't need that. the four sides of your tv screen are your puppet theater. that was a huge breakthrough, realizing you can just film the puppet in real space and real- time. but the other thing he also figured out was that, if that is what matters, you need to know what the camera is seeing at all times. so he put a monitor on the floor so he can always watch his performance and adjust in real- time. and they still do that

nuc kermit's face move or the other -- when you see kermit's face move or the other muppets, in the actual design of these characters. >> his real genius in puppets on television is he figured out two things. first of all, if you are on television, the to -- the puppet has to be expressive and you have to have a mouth that moves and eyes a look focus. he figured i'd have to design and build puppets that look like that. but the two things that he did that seemed natural in our same little mole -- or seem normal is that you don't need a puppeteer. he would just film the puppet show. jim decided and realized early on you don't need that. the four sides of your tv screen are your puppet theater. that was a huge breakthrough, realizing you can just film the puppet in real space and real- time. but the other thing he also figured out was that, if that is what matters, you need to know what the camera is seeing at all times. so he put a monitor on the floor so he can always watch his performance and adjust in real- time. and they still do that today on "a misuse street -- "on sesame street." thes

nuc kermit's face move or the other -- when you see kermit's face move or the other muppets, in the actualgn of these characters. >> his real genius in puppets on television is he figured out two things. first of all, if you are on television, the to -- the puppet has to be expressive and you have to have a mouth that moves and eyes a look focus. he figured i'd have to design and build puppets that look like that. but the two things that he did that seemed natural in our same little mole -- or seem normal is that you don't need a puppeteer. he would just film the puppet show. jim decided and realized early on you don't need that. the four sides of your tv screen are your puppet theater. that was a huge breakthrough, realizing you can just film the puppet in real space and real- time. but the other thing he also figured out was that, if that is what matters, you need to know what the camera is seeing at all times. so he put a monitor on the floor so he can always watch his performance and adjust in real- time. and they still do that today on "a misuse