Alexander the Grape

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.

• narration
• anthropomorphism
• grapefruit
• watermelon
• grape
• storyboards
• grapes
• jim henson
• 1960s
• cutout animation
• fruit
• edited from unfinished film
• unfinished
• fruit shop
• short film
• restored
• rediscovered film
• raisin
• plum
• narrator
• film restoration