Sam Puppet from <i>Sam and Friends</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1954-10
name: label: performer
content: Henson, Jim
label: maker
content: Henson, Jim
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sam is a hand puppet and the title character of <i>Sam and Friends</i>. This is the original Sam puppet that was created by Jim Henson in October 1954. Sam has a papier-mâché head which makes him more rigid than most of the other puppets created by Jim Henson. He never spoke, but he would lip-sync to popular music and comedy records from the time. <i>Sam and Friends</i> was a five-minute show that aired on the local NBC affiliate station in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV. It featured a cast of hand puppets created by Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel that often lip-synched to popular songs or comedy records. It aired from 1955 to 1961.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Puppetry
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Television
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from the Family of Jim Henson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0144.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0144
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0144.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 14 in x 11 in; 53.34 cm x 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm