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Topic: The Muppet Movie. 600ft Colour Sound.Walton
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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted July 11, 2017 03:57 PM
I think this is a great little film and this version is the 400ft version with Walton's last ever release The 200ft version spliced in. I grew up with Sesame street and loved the Sunday afternoon Muppet shows on telly, this film is a great bit of nostalgia and my own Children grew up with the muppets to.
The print is very good with no fade at all, the 200ft which fits in perfectly and clears up the story-line is very good but more grainy than the 400 but this by no means spoils it at all. The focus, sound volume and frame line all match perfectly, very unusual, i think i may have just been very lucky with this.
Here is the storyline edited to this 600ft version.
Kermit the Frog is relaxing in a Florida swamp, strumming his banjo and singing "The Rainbow Connection", when he is approached by Bernie, a Hollywood agent who encourages Kermit to pursue a career in show business. Inspired by the idea of "making millions of people happy", Kermit sets off on a cross-country trip to Los Angeles,
Meeting Fozzie Bear, who works as a hapless comedian in the El Sleezo Cafe, The two set out in a 1951 Studebaker after they are chased out of the bar. The duo’s journey includes misadventures which introduce them to a variety of eccentric human and Muppet characters, including Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhemand their manager Scooter, who receives a copy of the script from the pair (one of a number of self-references) at an old Presbyterian church; Gonzo, who works as a plumber, and his girlfriend Camilla the Chicken; Sweetums, who runs after them after they mistakenly think that he has turned them down at a used car lot; and the immediately love-stricken Miss Piggy at a fair.
While Kermit and Miss Piggy form a relationship, scientist Professor Krassman, (Mel Brooks), decides to brainwash Kermit in an attempt to force Kermit to perform in Doc’s commercials until an infuriated Miss Piggy knocks out Doc Hopper's henchmen and causes the scientist to be brainwashed by his own device.
During a campfire that night, the group sadly considers that they may miss the audition tomorrow, and Kermit wanders off, ashamed of himself for seemingly bringing his friends on a fruitless journey. Upon consulting a more optimistic vision of himself, Kermit remembers that it was not just his friends' belief in the dream that brought them this far, but also his own faith in himself. Reinvigorated, he returns to camp to find that the Electric Mayhem and Scooter have read the script in advance, and arrived to help them the rest of the way.
Just as it seems they are finally on their way, the group is warned by Max that Doc Hopper has hired an assassin named Snake Walker to kill Kermit. Kermit decides he will not be hunted down by a bully any longer and proposes a Western-style showdown in a nearby ghost town occupied by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker, who invent materials that have yet to be tested. While confronting Hopper, Kermit explains his motivations, attempting to appeal to Hopper’s own hopes and dreams, but Hopper is unmoved and orders his henchmen to kill him and all his friends. They are saved only when one of Dr. Bunsen's inventions, "insta-grow" pills, temporarily turns Animal into a giant, causing Hopper and his men to flee.
The Muppet's proceed to Hollywood, & are hired by producer and studio executive Lew Lord, (Orson Wells),
The Muppet's attempt to make their first movie involving a surreal pastiche of their experiences. a rainbow shines through the into the studio right onto the Muppet's. The Muppet's, joined by the characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, and the "Land of Gorch" segment of Saturday Night Live, sing the final verses of "The Rainbow Connection".
As the screening ends,
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