Anything Muppets "in limbo"
CTW set blueprints
The term Limbo is used in video production to indicate a neutral or nondescript background.[1][2][3][4][5]
Many Muppet segments are developed with the purpose of being performed in such a setting, and scripts often use "limbo" to note this intention specifically. Scripts for a number of sketches for the Sesame Street Muppets indicate "limbo" as the scenic environment; for example: Anything Muppet sketches, select Ernie and Bert sketches, and some of Kermit's lectures, to name a few instances.
When creating a minimalist character for The Mike Douglas Show in 1966, Jerry Juhl extended this idea and used it in scripts as the name for the "floating face" Limbo, who would go on to be used in several sketches.[6]
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- ↑ The Art of Video Production by Leonard Shyles. Published by SAGE Publications, 2007 — "Limbo lighting presents the talent in a setting consisting of a single uniform color, giving the illusion of infinite distance."
- ↑ Video Production: Disciplines and Techniques by Jim Foust, Edward J Fink, and Lynne Gross. Published by Taylor & Francis, 2017 — "limbo lighting, where the subject is placed in limbo against a softly lit, nondescript, neutral background."
- ↑ g-wlearning.com "A lighting technique in which the background of the set is lit to create the illusion of a solid-color, indistinct background."
- ↑ basecamppro.com "In a studio, to shoot a subject against a black backdrop."
- ↑ mheducation.com "A type of lighting where the performer is seen clearly, but the background appears to be vague or nondescriptive."
- ↑ Jim Henson's Red Book July 11-15, 1966 – ‘Co-host Mike Douglas Show in Philadelphia (finished TV “Organized Brain” for this)’ by The Jim Henson Company Archives, July 11, 2012