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(Some Guy) Spiffy Strange film created by Jim Henson in 1963 for AT&T talking about how great 'computer machines' are   (itworld.com) divider line 12
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RoyBatty
2012-01-26 11:28:29 AM
Steampunk before Boing Boing? How did that work?
 
Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion
2012-01-26 02:17:57 PM
That robot seemed to have an unnecessary amount of extraneous signals. Why would you build that many bells and flags into it? Also, it seemed to have more steam than I would normally expect a robot to have. I'd be looking for none. None steam.
 
J. Frank Parnell
2012-01-26 02:25:41 PM
The steam keeps those damned birds at bay.
 
Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion
2012-01-26 02:34:26 PM
J. Frank Parnell: The steam keeps those damned birds at bay.

Surely some sort of electrified netting or projectile launcher would be better. Or perhaps a coherent amplified light emission device of some description.
 
ABQGOD
2012-01-26 02:43:55 PM
Is there anything pre-Muppets that isn't strange?
 
Tillmaster
2012-01-26 03:56:17 PM
Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: J. Frank Parnell: The steam keeps those damned birds at bay.

Surely some sort of electrified netting or projectile launcher would be better. Or perhaps a coherent amplified light emission device of some description.

I'm not sure any of the optical masers available in 1963 were powerful enough. Anyway, steam was good enough for Brunel; you wouldn't have caught him meddling with coherent light.
 
artthehypnotist
2012-01-26 04:36:09 PM
I think he pretty much pegged it.
 
kenny's mom
2012-01-26 05:15:46 PM
Lots fun innocent fun, and I have no reason to ask for those 3-4 minutes of my life back again!

Only peripherally related at best, but for those who know (animated) Beany & Cecil, 1960s, here's (puppet) Cecil doing "Raggmopp," later a TV hit of his (animated), on live TV, a dozen years earlier in his career. Wacky, indeed!

Link (new window)


/not surprised by anything Henson did....always very deft and creative within available technology and budget
 
RoyBatty
2012-01-26 05:38:42 PM
kenny's mom: Lots fun innocent fun, and I have no reason to ask for those 3-4 minutes of my life back again!

Only peripherally related at best, but for those who know (animated) Beany & Cecil, 1960s, here's (puppet) Cecil doing "Raggmopp," later a TV hit of his (animated), on live TV, a dozen years earlier in his career. Wacky, indeed!

Link (new window)


/not surprised by anything Henson did....always very deft and creative within available technology and budget

Cecil and Beany was one of my favorite tv shows... Thanks.
 
Ed Finnerty [TotalFark]
2012-01-26 08:01:49 PM
That first machine should have spent less time bragging and more time building a winding machine.

Everything would have worked out if the inaccurate human wouldn't have overwound the machine.

Can an imperfect being create a perfect one?

Can an imperfect being know a perfect one?
 
Tater1337
2012-01-26 08:47:57 PM
what was the moral after the man wound the machine?
 
Jonny17
2012-01-27 07:47:12 AM
Speaking of strange stuff from Jim henson, has anyone ever seen The Cube (new window) ? I watched it over christmas. Absolutely mental.
 
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