The bumper for the New York State Education Department's Bureau of Mass Communications, creators of one my favorite shows "Vegetable Soup." Of course I grew up completely in love with bleeps and blips.

Couldn't much on the wonderfully named "Bureau of Mass communications," but did find this bit in history of the NYS Ed Dept:

Starting in 1886 the Department of Public Instruction loaned glass lantern slides to teacher training institutions, school districts, and adult learning groups. This popular service supported instruction in geography, history, and science, and continued until 1939. Thereafter a small unit promoted school use of audio-visual aids, including the new media of film, radio, and television. The Education Department fostered the development of educational and public television services in New York. In 1953 the Regents obtained seven FCC permits for UHF channels; under a law passed the next year the Regents chartered educational television (ETV) councils to operate the stations. After successful closed-circuit and broadcast ETV experiments, state aid authorized in 1961 helped over a thousand schools purchase and use ETV equipment during the decade. The Department acquired or produced educational video programs (such as the popular "Vegetable Soup" series on inter-racial relations) and distributed them to schools. In recent years the ETV program has promoted interactive video-computer networks and remote learning systems. Statutes passed in 1961 and 1978 authorized a continuing program of state aid for New York's non-commercial public television (and also radio) stations, which provide educational programming to schools, institutions, and the general public.

From glass lantern slides to trippy shows on "inter-racial" relations.