IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Swedish Chef is one of the ...

As a longtime Muppet puppeteer, Bill Barretta is used to crouching out of the camera shot, pressed against a colleague's armpit as he manipulates the character perched atop his hand. But in the ...

This ladle was used with the Swedish Chef puppet. The Swedish Chef is a live-hand puppet originally performed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and currently performed by Bill Barretta. In a live-hand puppet ...

SAN DIEGO -- It could be the muffled sound of singing in the shower or that sing-songy indecipherable voice from the Muppets' Swedish Chef. Surprisingly, scientists said the audio they captured was a ...