Trippy early Sesame Street

DublinWriter

The following is a collection of sketches/skits from the Sesame Street of the early 70's I made while trawling through YouTube.

Each clip falls into a category of a) very creepy, b) very stoney and c) all of the above. There's no doubt that you couldn't show anything like these on TV these days.

It'll be a real 'trip' down memory lane for any of you over the age of 30.

Visual Thinkin', Maaaan
The Yo-Yo Master and the Lost Kid
Counting to 10
Mystic 20 (English and Spanish versions)
That's about the size of it
It ain't bad to get mad
Fat Cat Sat Hat
Would you like to buy an O?
A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter
Here is your life, Loaf of Bread!
Alien Alphabet
Count to ten with nobody

Archeron

Aw man! I remember some of those from the first time I saw them!

BLITZ_Molloy

They used to use this primitive analogue computer called Scanimate to do some of the strange trippy graphics. Got used in alot of the company titles for TV shows too. My friends doing film and does all kinds of wierd **** in that style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVZ4a59kIQ

darkdubh

This is a legendary Sesame Street clip that was thought lost for years but resurfaced recently.It supposedly scared the bejasus out of loads of kids when it was first shown.Don't remember seeing it myself,anyone here recall seeing it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0ffj__R4g

DublinWriter

darkdubh wrote: »

Don't remember seeing it myself,anyone here recall seeing it?

Sesame Street used to receive shorts, both commissioned and non-commissioned from animation houses as first-cuts of proposed sketches.

They'd try them out with a test audience and if the results were good, they'd commission the animator to produce the final product.

This looks like an early draft of a sketch that didn't made the cut - look at the lack of background art and the colour of the background cell changing crudely at 1.04 suggesting a change to be illustrated later.

Good find all the same!

darkdubh

DublinWriter wrote: »

Sesame Street used to receive shorts, both commissioned and non-commissioned from animation houses as first-cuts of proposed sketches.

They'd try them out with a test audience and if the results were good, they'd commission the animator to produce the final product.

This looks like an early draft of a sketch that didn't made the cut - look at the lack of background art and the colour of the background cell changing crudely at 1.04 suggesting a change to be illustrated later.

Good find all the same!

It was aired allright,but maybe this footage is just a demo and not the full clip that was finally shown.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/crack_master_rarely_seen_1975_sesame_street_cartoon_supposedly_too_dark_for