Sunday, March 09, 2008
Jim Henson's Computer Monster video for IBM circa 1967
From the Muppet wikia:
"In 1965, information technology company IBM commissioned a set of films for their sales meetings. Jim Henson worked on these films with David Lazer, the head of IBM's film and television division; Lazer went on to leave the company and work for Henson, producing many of the Muppet productions over the next twenty years, including The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie.
"One of the IBM films, "Coffee Break Machine", features an early version of Cookie Monster . . . This film was so successful that Henson performed the sketch in 1967 for The Ed Sullivan Show, and it was remade as a Muppet Show sketch."
This video is the version that aired on the Ed Sullivan Show.
"In 1965, information technology company IBM commissioned a set of films for their sales meetings. Jim Henson worked on these films with David Lazer, the head of IBM's film and television division; Lazer went on to leave the company and work for Henson, producing many of the Muppet productions over the next twenty years, including The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie.
"One of the IBM films, "Coffee Break Machine", features an early version of Cookie Monster . . . This film was so successful that Henson performed the sketch in 1967 for The Ed Sullivan Show, and it was remade as a Muppet Show sketch."
This video is the version that aired on the Ed Sullivan Show.
