Because watching a copier from 1959 actually, literally take 40-odd seconds to make one copy in real time is boring, even if it was novel for the time. The ad's

Because watching a copier from 1959 actually, literally take 40-odd seconds to make one copy in real time is boring, even if it was novel for the time. The ad's runtime took as much time as the copier, which was the point. Yeah, it's filler. They did a bunch of filler ads. The article ignores this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJk_JVl9ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJk_JVl9ME