"Paperwork Explosion"

[EcoRover]

Ah, never mind that IBM office machines and PCs INCREASED the amount of paperwork/busywork in offices (and academe) by an order of magnitude!

[gurkensexshop]

i came here because of DOM + ROLAND

[HCShannon]

A good companion to this film would be Charles and Ray Eames's "The Information Machine"

[edgertor]

who did the music? is it another raymond scott piece?

[bridgetown1966]

there's a really obscure madlib sample at about 1:58

[xxxElegatorxxx]

Aaah, to be a woman and get to be a teacher or secretary back then.

[IntoTheLens827]

WOW, Frank Oz was in this. He was shown at time count 3:10. :-) COOL! :-) I at one point, I think I heard hensons voice for a line towards the end of the film. :-)

[samgold24]

4:06 --> Machines Can Do the Work by Fatboy Slim

[organsplus]

@samgold24 Or "Machines work," by B(if)ftek.

[uebergeek]

Is the white-haired man at the end the model for the Muppet Statler (or was it Waldorf?)

[sutherlandjoan]

How many overweight people did you see in the film........

[peetrwilson]

@sutherlandjoanit's ...because obesity is an epidemic.

[Sludacris8]

@sutherlandjoan I agree with you completely. However, if you were to look at modern commercials/ads/films, you will be hard-pressed to find fatties trying to sell you a product.

[mobile513]

They manufactured and repaired the machines that sorted out census data to send people to the camps and actively maintained sorting machines on site. I suppose it isn't common knowledge, or funny, but I can't resist a bleak joke highlighting the evils of a famous corporation.

It's not letting me post links, but a google search should do it. It was brought to light in the book IMB and The Holocaust a few years ago, which won some legitimate non-fiction awards.

[furahafire]

Now we have too much mundane paperless work. Like this film, even though it is a commercial.

[GVike]

Whoever did this was smokin' or doin' some fine shhhhh... anyway gotta love the spooky vintage analogue synth sounds and the other crude sound effects!

[deircass]

@GVike Just find out about Raymond Scott, it's not vintage it's truly analogic and experimental stuff.

[HCShannon]

@deircass My sister brought a Raymond Scott CD that a friend loaned to her and I saved all the song to my Ipod!

[TheFourSidesOfficial]

i jsut tripped absolute bollocks... and im sobre

[tylerbhobbs]

it feels like propaganda for some reason. . .

[Nikolidas]

This came from the same company that produced "The Muppets". People should think.

[acr08807]

I'm just glad that IBM solved this problem for us before it got really bad.

[mobile513]

@acr08807

Paperwork, Jews, if you gotta problem, IBMs all up that mutherfucker.

[acr08807]

@mobile513 If only they had a solution for bigots like you.

[mobile513]

@acr08807

I was referring to IBM's role in Holocaust that people like to pretend never happened. It's a joke.

[acr08807]

@mobile513 Then I apologize. What was IBM's role in the Holocaust?

[pvx]

@acr08807 Apparently, the Nazi government in the 1930s used IBM's Hollerith punch-card systems to tabulate and keep census on those "undesirables" of the Third Reich's constituency to more efficiently sort them off to concentration camps (or other nefarious situations), prior to WWII. Just Google "IBM and the Holocaust", it'll tell you the whole story.

[herzogzwo]

Machines should work. People should think.

[yorty007]

@herzogzwo here here

[ryaninwatson]

"FOREMAN" scared the shit outta me @2:34

[CaptainSiberia]

5 stars.

Is that guy with glasses a beardless Jim Henson?

[satweavers]

And then they created SAP... and left to humans all the things that computers didn't have time to do.

[kuriosity89]

1:30 - Don Draper

[plasmatron6]

excelent!

[sircamills]

Just awesome!

[MuppetsFan123]

notice: It's FRANK OZ at 3:12

[cwchrisweed]

Amazing. Could easily beat any of today's so-called "art" films.

[SalientK]

@cwchrisweed Are you serious? This video is incredibly irritating and repetitive.

[woodwhat]

I love the old man in the corn field.