Saturday, August 8, 2009

Wilkins Coffee Ads by Jim Henson




I found this while doing a search for 1960s ads, inspired by my love of Mad Men. According to the Muppet Wiki page, Jim Henson was approached by Wilkins coffee to create these 10 second ads. When you subtract the 2 second product shot, he only had 8 seconds to work with. And he brilliantly created two puppets, one who loves Wilkins coffee and one who hates it. Of course, the hater gets destroyed in Muppet-esque fashion in each ad. And the man shot 175 of these from 1957 to 1961.

Enjoy!

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