{"id":14101,"date":"2012-03-04T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T17:34:23","slug":"bell-system-film-from-63-shows-genius-of-muppets-henson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/bell-system-film-from-63-shows-genius-of-muppets-henson\/","title":{"rendered":"1963 Short From Muppets Jim Henson for Bell System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muppet.wikia.com\/wiki\/Beaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-102829\" title=\"1963 Short From Muppets Jim Henson for Bell System \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beaker_muppet.png?resize=49%2C102&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1963 Short From Muppets Jim Henson for Bell System \" width=\"49\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beaker_muppet.png?resize=36%2C75&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beaker_muppet.png?resize=72%2C150&amp;ssl=1 72w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beaker_muppet.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 49px) 100vw, 49px\" \/><\/a>In the wake of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1204342\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Muppets<\/em><\/a> movie,\u00a0<a title=\"AT&amp;T\" href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">AT&amp;T<\/a> (<a title=\"www.nyse.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyse.com\/quote\/XNYS:T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T<\/a>) re-discovered a film by <strong><a title=\"Muppets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.muppetcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muppets<\/a> creator <a title=\"Jim Henson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/jim_henson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes noopener noreferrer\">Jim Henson<\/a>. <\/strong>He created the film for <strong><a title=\"Bell System\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121106041509\/http:\/\/www.porticus.org:80\/bell\/bellsystem_history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bell System<\/a><\/strong> nearly 50 years ago. <a title=\"news.cnet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CNet<\/em><\/a> author\u00a0<a title=\"www.cnet.com\" href=\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/edward-moyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener noreferrer\">Edward Moyer<\/a> <a title=\"news.cnet.com\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120325043024\/http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-57366301-1\/unearthed-robot-film-shows-genius-of-muppets-henson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> the film gives a hilarious glimpse of Mr. Henson&#8217;s earlier days &#8211; and of the <strong>youthful years of computing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-L6ZxovRSE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T posted the 1963 short &#8220;<a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ivJNNwTGDcw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Robot<\/em><\/a>&#8221; on the company&#8217;s <a title=\"ATTTechChannel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ATTTechChannel?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATTTechChannel<\/a> section on <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, addresses the anxiety felt by humans in regard to machines and computers. The article says the film was &#8220;<em>made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-<strong>brand-new topic&#8211;Data Communications<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; AT&amp;T explains on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ivJNNwTGDcw&amp;feature=player_embedded\">the YouTube page<\/a>. And the company continues:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The organizers of the seminar, Inpro, actually set the tone for the film in a three-page memo from one of Inpro&#8217;s principals, Ted Mills, to Henson. Mills outlined the nascent, but growing relationship between man and machine: a relationship not without tension and resentment&#8230;<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Displaying his mastery of slapstick, comic timing, and sound effects, Henson uses his humorously menacing star, &#8220;Computer H14,&#8221; to reassure viewers that they need not be alarmed: humans remain in control according to <em>CNet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h6>Related article<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2012\/01\/24\/att-archives-jim-hensons-old-school-robot-explains-data-communications-in-1963-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AT&amp;T Archives: Jim Henson&#8217;s Old School Robot Explains Data Communications in 1963 [Video]<\/a> (geeksaresexy.net)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muppets creator Jim Henson 1963 film for Bell System addresses the anxiety felt by humans over machines &#038; computers is available on YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[2197,109,1120,1819,832,1118,1119,641,53],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-of-things","tag-2197","tag-att","tag-bell-system","tag-computer","tag-internet-of-things","tag-jim-henson","tag-muppets","tag-t","tag-youttube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132861,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions\/132861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}