Before the Muppet Show, before Sesame Street, there were the Jim Henson IBM films

An early Cookie Monster and a state-of-the-art coffee machine. Things go as you'd expect.



These were done in the sixties, mostly in 1967, prior to the premiere of Sesame Street. For more videos, check out The IBM Muppet Show.

IBM. The Muppets. Two venerable institutions-but not ones we tend to associate with each other. Yet in the late 1960s, before most people had ever seen a computer in person or could identify a Muppet on sight, the two teamed up when IBM contracted with Jim Henson for a series of short films designed to help its sales staff. Little known today, these remain fresh, funny, and surprisingly irreverent. Henson would return to their gags and situations in his famous later works–and he plucked the Cookie Monster from one of them when assembling the Muppet cast for Sesame Street in 1969.

Enjoy.