"Sell, Sell, Sell": Jim Henson’s Commercials presentation by Karen Falk at the CJM

In conjunction with the Imagination Unlimited: The Jim Henson Exhibition, the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum hosted their first post-pandemic program with a live audience: a presentation by Henson Archivist and Legacy Vice President Karen Falk about Jim Henson’s adventures in the world of TV advertising. 

Wilkins and Wontkins puppets created by Jim Henson for coffee commercials in 1957.

Karen Falk sharing images and footage from Jim Henson’s TV
commercials from the 1950s and 1960s.