Sesame Street: Old School – Volume One (1969-1974)
- Do you dredge up how to get to Sesame Street? Relive those memorable moments from your childhood with Sesame Street: Ancient School. The best of seasons one to five are all here for the first time ever on DVD. Included are the best episodes from these ahead of schedule being, the original pilot as it aired and tons of extras. Do you dredge up the Ladybug Picnic? How about Wanda the Witch? Did you learn to count wit
Were some of your first friends named Grover, Mr. Hooper, and Bob? Do you dredge up the Ladybug Picnic? How about Pinball Number Count? Sesame Street Ancient School is a time capsule of the ahead of schedule days of the ground-breaking series you grew up on. Take a trip back in time with Bert, Ernie, Huge Bird and Snuffleupagus. Sing along with classics like “C is for Cookie,” “I Like Trash,” and “Rubber Duckie.” For the first time on DVD, the music, memories, and mayhem from Sesame Street’s first five seasons can be loved again and again!When the Children’s Theater Workshop’s Sesame Street first aired on television in 1969, it was a revolutionary new show aimed specifically at preschool children–an audience previously untargeted by television programming. Exhaustively-researched and tested on real audiences of preschoolers, this “experiment in kid programming” aimed to teach preschoolers the alphabet, numbers, body parts, rhyming, and basic reasoning skills while thoroughly entertaining them. Through the use of humor, the incredible puppetry of Frank Oz and Jim Henson, vigor, the incredibly catchy music of Joe Raposo and Jeffrey Moss, and a quick-action pace borrowed from the television money-making format, Sesame Street was, and still is, more successful at educating and entertaining children than anyone initially imagined. What’s more, the lessons learned by generations of preschoolers went far beyond simple school-readiness skills to include values like acceptance, cooperation, and inclusiveness because the urban Sesame Street was a place populated by people and monsters young viewers could identify with, everywhere anything could happen, and everywhere every ethnicity, generation, and species co-existed and interacted harmoniously.
Sesame Street: Ancient School Volume 1 1969-1974 offers a sampling of the first five seasons of Sesame Street and includes the first episode of each time of year in its entirety as well as a large selection of classic segments from each time of year highlighting some of the most memorable sketches (“Bein’ Green,” “Rubber Duckie,” “Whistle a Pleased Tune,” and Super-Grover in “Telephone Booth”), favorite human characters like Bob and Mr. Hooper, and guest appearances by celebrities like Bill Cosby, Lena Horne, Jackie Robinson, Carol Burnett, and Jesse Jackson. Adult viewers will be transported back in time as they witness Bert’s frustration with his ever-noisy roommate Ernie, chortle at the antics of Grover and his demanding consumer in Grover’s Restaurant, and wonder if Snuffleupagus will ever show himself to someone besides Huge Bird. Other well-remembered moments include pinball number count, the baker who inevitably tumbles down the stairway with a handful of cream pies, the ever-munching Cookie Monster, “Here is Your Life” segments, Bert “Doin’ the Pigeon,” and the inevitably grumpy Oscar the Grouch. Post-Elmo preschoolers and their parents will laugh, learn, grow, and join with one a further as they share this classic compilation of Sesame Street moments. Bonus features include the original sales pitch reel (introduced by Joan Ganz Cooney and hosted by Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog) and a thick booklet rich with history, trivia, and a pullout activity section for children. (Ages 2 and older) –Tami Horiuchi
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