Sesame Street - Elevator

[srobinto]

The taxi always makes me laugh.

[loveforlogos]

@loveforlogos

It was.

[loveforlogos]

Well I think this one was animated by Fred Calvert

[Rusty0918B]

Well, today's elevators usually sound an alarm if there are too many people in the elevator car.

R.I.P. Elevator Operator (in this short)

[juntaothesecond]

i would put Grover and Ariel the mermaid on an elevator like that.

[jimmyboy7817]

It's the classic "Who Sank the Boat" scenario relocated to the elevator.

[bgbassman]

Once a drunk got into an elevator shaft and fell ten floors to the bottom. SPLAT!!!

In a daze he slurred "I said UP!!!!"

[d72jjpilc]

Another hilarious cartoon clip from the early days - it seems like it's in the same 'mold' as the one with the boy erasing things, the boy counting to 20 with a paddleball, and the botched rocket countdowns.

[menslady125]

An elevator that can hold the weight of a car? Whatever next?

[whitecrow222]

wonder if this is where my elevator nightmares originated from.....

[CanadaFamilyMan]

Elevators have always inspired some very weird drama. This is no exception.

[ControlledExplosions]

man this one used to scare me the falling part would always scare me lol

[setheurovision94]

I love that boxing kangaroo - but then I guess I'm not the only one. This is why we have weight limits on elevators nowadays.

[DiAnno13]

Are there stars in your eyes when you crawl in at night?

From the boys from the sidewalks,

From the gutter theatrical...

[jeffkahl]

boy I got a real lift outta this one! thank you i'll be here all week! try the fish!

[RCast]

Did you hear about the guy who fell down a 10-story elevator shaft and lived to tell everybody about it? He told everyone on the 10th floor, the 9th floor, the 8th floor...

[RCast]

That must have been one heavy mouse!!!

[MIKECNW]

Interesting that this was made.

While even today there maybe some elevator operators in some older buildings in 1969 and since the post WW II era buildings have been built with automatic elevators.

[DragonLord1975]

Maximum load, jackwax!

[bgbassman]

Poor guy got the shaft!

[QBCNetwork]

Next to the "Umbrella Lady", this scared the hail out of me. Sometimes Sesame Street was too frightening to watch!

[vidhag900]

Classic clip. It makes me think of the rocket launching cartoons for some reason.

[DiAnno13]

I had this in a book. A short anthology titled "Ten Stories."

[erracht]

I saw this maybe twice as a kid. Very odd. I was disturbed by some Sesame Street stuff, but I think this one was perhaps more strange than scary to me.

[33chiliken]

I've noticed a lot of this old school Sesame Street animation is kinda like watching the animation from the movie "Yellow Submarine".......is there a connection?

[raposofan]

When "Yellow Submarine" premiered in 1968, it was considered a paradigm shift for the animation industry, much the way the 1977 "Star Wars" was for feature special effects, model/miniatures, matte paintings and storytelling. Animators everywhere were excited by the Halas/Batchelor team's groundbreaking work in YS and strove to imitate it. To see how deeply CTW was influenced by "Yellow Submarine", watch the "When I'm 64" sequence in the latter and examine the animation of the numbers.

[raposofan]

<--- animator

[DiAnno13]

I know.. it's a reunion party for New Yorker Magazine cartoon characters, in the Algonquin Hotel.

[DiAnno13]

There must be one wild party going on in the penthouse!

[DiAnno13]

Sittin' on the dock of the bay...

[DiAnno13]

This used to end with the "bahm-BAHM" that's on a lot of the animated clips, i.e. "Goat Begins With the Letter G."

[rollingchild4]

There are other animated clips that end with the "bahm-BAHM" (Sesame Street Old School Music):

B for Boxer

B for Boxeador (Spanish for Boxer)

Goat Begins With the Letter G (The letter G)

Joe and the Junebug (the Letter J)

J for Jam (Limerick J)

O for Open (Limerick O)

V for Violin (Limerick V)

rollingchild4

[DiAnno13]

I used to think it was added to mask the sound of the man reaching the lobby.

[TonyDuMont]

So this is from Sprout? Wow, I had no idea they played older shows.

[sesamestreet66]

No, most of the episodes lately have been from around 2000-2001. They incorporate clips from the older episodes every now and then.

[DiAnno13]

Who is the man, who watches out for his brother man..?

[raposofan]

Groannnnn.  I got this.

[DiAnno13]

Nice to see I'm not the only one who likes elevator music!

[DiAnno13]

Lay off the cheese, there, fella!

[raposofan]

This was scary as hell to me as a child. And you know what, I'M GLAD IT WAS.

[culpit]

You're right. I found it kind of scary too. I always wondered where everyone went to when the elevator exploded and the operator was left alone to fall?

[DiAnno13]

To a small, windy town called Smithereens. At least that's what people say, "They were blown to Smithereens.."

[ruleta74835]

I too FONDLY recall this being sort of frightening to me as a child. Both the sound of the ghoul (or whatever) on the 4th floor and the scream at the end were spooky. But I loved whenever this one aired.

[DiAnno13]

Thanks for posting this! For some reason I thought the ending would have been cut off, but it's intact.

[Grover1234]

That is so cool to see that Sprout shows older shows. I wished i had that channel. But i don't have that other saulight. (can't spell why could Sesame Street talk about those things) I have Dish Network. But cool to see this skit. Don't remember it but cool to see something old.

[culpit]

I wonder what kind of convention was going on in that hotel to bring in such an unusual crowd?

[DiAnno13]

The Annual fairy-soldier-sorcerer-kangaro­oboxer-taxidriver-fireman-clow­n-gorilla-mouse Convention.

[jmaxfield]

The identity of passenger #4 always stumped me with his weird moan - you say it's a sorcerer?

[Juliefan21]

I think so.

[rollingchild4]

This is actually requested by other users to be uploaded by request by nantoreturns and mstatz. Anyway, thanks for uploading this clip, The Counting Cartoon Elevator aka Sesame Street- Elevator, sesamestreet66. Is this Sesame Street clip, The Counting Cartoon Elevator aka Sesame Street- Elevator from 1969?

rollingchild4

[ISNorden]

Yay, this is a five-star classic I've been hunting for a long time!

[Juliefan21]

Statler: That clip scared the pants off of me when I was a kid.

Waldorf: You sure you didn't forget to put 'em on again?