How Did They Film Kermit's 'Rainbow Connection'?
Answer: Jim Henson was extremely uncomfortable.
![How Did They Film Kermit's 'Rainbow Connection'?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/3/742543_320x180.jpg?v=1)
The lengths Jim Henson went to create just one scene from The Muppet Movie is a peek into the wonderful mind of the master puppeteer. Read more about "The Rainbow Connection" and the weird contraptions required to film it below.
![RAINBOW CONNECTION The opening song to 1979's The Muppet Movie was nominated for an Oscar and became an unexpected radio hit. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/5/742535.jpg?v=2)
![The movie starts with Kermit sweetly playing a banjo on a log in the middle of swamp. It's beautiful, with sweeping landscape shots. But with the Mupp](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/6/742536.jpg?v=2)
![IT REQUIRED A COMPLICATED SET-UP WIRE To BANJO RUBBER SLEEVE AR TV TUBE TV MONITOR MONITOR CABLE ALUMINUM TANK Jim Henson was sealed in an aluminum ta](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/5/742545.jpg?v=1)
![A MORE ACCURATE VIEW OXYGEH OXYGEN The water was only 4 feet deep, SO Jim Henson at 6'3 had to squeeze himself into the small container, unable to st](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/9/742539.jpg?v=2)
![A CLOSER LOOK OXYGEN OXYGEN Henson was sealed in the small diving bell for up three hours at a time for five days of filming. CRACKEDCONT](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/1/742541.jpg?v=2)
![HENSON COMPARED IT TO BEING BURIED ALIVE Henson also said it was no place for someone with claustrophobia. His 13-year-old son was frightened to see](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/8/742538.jpg?v=2)
![THAT WAS HARDLY THE ONLY SCENE THAT WAS DIFFICULT TO FILM. For example, the Rainbow Conection finale involved 250 Muppets with over 150 puppeteers i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/0/742540.jpg?v=2)
![IT PROVED HENSON'S DEDICATION To HIS CRAFT One of the fellow crew members said Henson would never ask us to do anything that he hadn't done himself o](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/2/742542.jpg?v=2)