Classic Sesame Street - Sesame Street NEWS FLASH - The First Day of School (with Closed Caption)

[awsommeeegirlie]

hahah do u see cookies eyes

[DELIVEREE]

That is quite an interesting Sesame Street video uploaded on YouTube.

CAPTION: This is an interesting video.

[wileyk209zback]

@DELIVEREE I know; not only were the closed captions simplified for dialogue on Sesame Street, but sound effect/music descriptions were also quite off too. One example I remember is once when the sound of glass shattering was heard, the captions read " [BOOM!] "

[Losagirl1980]

U know that deaf woman Linda is in role "Children of Lesser God" with Marlee Martlin? I saw her in that film.

[GameShowNetwork]

This must be the first episode of Sesame Street to be closed captioned for the hearing impared.

[Hondo20132]

Yeah, the captions back then gave a basic idea of what they are saying, but it's not physically accurate what they said.

[wilek209]

Heh, you can see the 1974-1984 News Flash title card at the beginning of the sketch, compared to the "normal" version here. That proves a long-held suspicion I had; they replaced the logo at the beginning with the 1986 version for reruns in the early 1990s (many pre-1984 Sesame Street News sketches have been getting that "update" since the late 1980s)

[BuddyBoy600]

I remember the Sesame Street News Flash logo had a thunder cloud with yellow stars, a blue lightning bolt, and a flashing red text that reads "NEWS FLASH."

[wilek209]

On this particular sketch? That version of the logo you mentioned was used in the 1984-1986 News Flash segments; this one is from 1980-1981.

[brianklick]

kermit acts as if he never meet cookie

[patronus1776]

C'mon! Did you never see "The Muppet Show"? The whole premise of that show -- and, likewise, with this News Flash skit -- is that the Muppets are acting...acting, as in a variety-show-type skit.

[samsticka]

Kermit had to ask Cookie Monster who he is? They've met millions of times.

[MarshalGrover]

Boy, is that CC off.

[Garrettk41]

Yeah. Even when I was a kid, I noticed how it simply said "Kermit, you must listen", rather than "you can't talk and listen at the same time". Poor Linda didn't get a very good view of the flash.

[wileyk209zback]

@Garrettk41 I saw the Sesame Street News sketch about "Rapunzel" on PBS Kids Sprout On Demand (it was part of Episode 3834), and the captions were similarly simplified there too. I always wondered why the National Captioning Institute simply didn't use the second closed-captioning track (CC2) for the simplified captions, and put regular ones in the main CC1 track, like "Arthur" used to (except Arthur's captions are by the WGBH Educational Group).

[TVLubber]

That was the way of the closed captions back in the days. As of Season 39, the CC is better.

[wilek209]

That was because the closed captionings used to be very simplified for very young kids. "Arthur" has a second closed captioning track like that, too. I guess with Season 39, the National Captioning Institute thought it would work better if it were nearly word-for-word.

[antsamthompson9]

You got that right.