Jim Henson's Bizarre Anti-Paperwork Ad for IBM

Adafruit posted this on their blog today, and I’d never seen it before. From the Jim Henson Company’s YouTube channel:

In 1967, Henson was contracted by IBM to make a film extolling the virtues of their new technology, the MT/ST, a primitive word processor. The film would explore how the MT/ST would help control the massive amount of documents generated by a typical business office. Paperwork Explosion, produced in October 1967, is a quick-cut montage of images and words illustrating the intensity and pace of modern business. Henson collaborated with Raymond Scott on the electronic sound track.

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