The Muppet Movie is a 1979 musical road comedy film directed by James Frawley and produced by Jim Henson. The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring the Muppets. The film is a movie-in-a-movie, as we see Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets gathering for the first screening of “The Muppet Movie.” Kermit notes to his nephew Robin as the lights dim that the movie is a somewhat fictionalized account of the true story of how the Muppets first got together.
The movie was a critical and commercial success. In 2009, the film was selected by the U.S. National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
The Muppet Movie began filming on July 5, 1978, and proceeded over 87 days in the summer and fall of that year[2], during a production break partway through the taping of the third season of The Muppet Show (between Helen Reddy and Harry Belafonte). The film was scored by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher, and their song “Rainbow Connection” received an Academy Award nomination. The movie is dedicated to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who made his final film appearance in this movie. In a 2004 interview, John Landis revealed that he was the puppeteer for Grover during the final sequence, as Frank Oz was busy operating Miss Piggy. Landis also noted that Tim Burton was also among the many puppeteers in the finale.
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