Joan Densmore, who plays the librarian, does not smile once in the video. She has a faint, blink-and-you'll-miss-it smirk at 2:18, when she tweaks Roland Orzabal's nose after he "shoots" her with a joke gun.
Filmed at the Emmanuel College Library in Toronto, Canada, in May 1985. The index card cabinets that seemed to attack Roland Orzabal have since been relocated; otherwise the library looks in 2024 much as it did when the video was shot there.
The bit where the index cards fly out of the drawer into Roland Orzabal's face was borrowed from the film Ghostbusters (1984). Orzabal and Curt Smith acknowledged this in their 2022 commentary on the video.