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Even Jim Henson had to pay the rent, and in 1963 he helped keep the landlord at bay with this short film, produced for the Bell System to show at a data-communications seminar for business owners. If you’d like to try imagining the audience’s frame of mind, pretend that The Jetsons is a first-run prime-time cartoon.
1963 was more notable in Henson’s life — and everybody’s — for another reason: That was the year he hired Frank Oz.
The best thing I’ve done in a while is to show my pretty tech-savvy 76-year-old grandmother, who worked for the Bell System (then after the divestiture in the early 80s, Southern Bell, which then became BellSouth, which then became AT&T again) these archives. I really dug the film about the then-new Saul Bass designed Bell logo. Because I am a nerd.
Yip yip yip.
That’s so steampunk – ahead of his time, that guy.
@rptrcub: I really dug the film about the then-new Saul Bass designed Bell logo.
That sound you just heard was Silent Creative Partner and me having a simultaneous orgasm.
ADD: And if you have 27 minutes to spare, here it is.
ADD2: “Ma Bell has gone Mod.” That alone was worth the price of admission.
ADD3: Also, the Muzak version of “Magical Mystery Tour”.
And once the machine freed itself from human error, the Cylons were born. Or the Terminator, depending on your taste.
@matador1015: Miss Piggy as Number 6?
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Another genius who brought joy to our lives and was taken from us far too soon.