Classic Sesame Street - it depends on your perspective

[acerflots]

yeeees awesome! a brilliant game too

[BuddyBoy600]

I remember this. It has a piggy bank, Table with bowls, A birdcage, A Bicycle wheel, A house, A screw thingy, A pencil, A mug, A duck, A bell, An umbrella, A watermelon, A salt container, A drum, and an escalator. I have not seen this in years.

[Opqosite]

cups, ducks, and bells...

[Teneely]

mad steel pan... big up trinidad and tobago

[Katarine08]

big up!

[tesubcalle]

Oh, man! I used to love watching this one as a kid. I can't believe it slipped from memory. Thanks so much for the trip!

[TheGreatDoon]

Wow it's been a while since I last saw this! Thank you for posting!

[flowertrue]

Well, I dont think I got the whole 'perspective' idea from this video, but I did enjoy the wild Jamaican music!

[dmso12]

lovely!

[RPTLCTRK]

THIS OWNED!!

[missperocier]

i remember this!

[apple0zebra]

a bell, a duck, and a teacup. these are all also in 'life is flashing before your eyes'. i wonder why.

[whofarted]

all i could come up with was the first letters

BCD, it makes a face

i tried associating it as sounds.

ring, quack, and cough(coffee)

but it just doesnt quite work

[UltraBibendum]

The animation isn't just similar, the frames are /exactly the same./

Perhaps he wasn't trying to make any sort of subliminal message. Maybe he just liked the way the transformation looked and was too lazy-ass to create something else to fill that few seconds in 'life is flashing before your eyes'

whatever it's supposed to mean, if anything, they're still wonderful animations, and he is an extraordinarily talented man. :)

[CosmoInterestelar]

too acid for kids

[apple0zebra]

kids need a little surreality

[HScorpio]

Ehh, this is tame compared to the rest of Vincent Collins' oeuvre.

[rambam1204]

Who is the singer on this one?

[wattamack4]

This is on the new "Old School" dvd.

[Lycanthrope777]

Oh my goodness gracious, this must have been heck to animate!

[MasterEiji]

yeah.."morphing" wouldnt be invented for at least another decade..

[MeowMonkey]

I love the flute and steel drum.

[Pillowchii]

Aww, I remember this! This brings back memories of simpler times ;;

[derekandmandy]

Very nice! Maybe this has been posted somewhere, and I just can't find it, but does anyone have a clip of what I would call a "high tech" camera trick of the 70's where one person is in the front, and there are duplicates of themselves chasing from behind? That's the best way I can think of to describe it. It used to be on sesame street all the time, and I just thought it was so cool when I was a kid.

[MasterEiji]

wow.. I had almost forgot about this one completly..thanks for preserving it for me and my niece..

[Bloodklot]

It's easier said than done. The movements may seem easy to you but I challenge any one of you to get some animation paper and do what he did. Unless you animated 1000 sheets of animation paper to make up less than a minute of rendered animation, you have no idea how hard it really is. And that's only part of it, try conceptualizing what you want to happen.

[jeopardy60611]

Are you looking at a thing from above or upside down?

From the top or the bottom, the front, or behind, are you turning it around?

[jeopardy60611]

WOW! I've been looking for this. The Carribean music always fascinated me. Also, it wasn't until now that I could understand the words he was singing.

[splotchwork5000]

this must of been a bitch to animate...with all the morphing... Ohh Boy

[jeopardy60611]

I'm sure that the objects were simple to draw. People who know how to annimate do this sort of thing all the time. Of course, this was done long before Pixar and other computer-generated graphics, so it was all done by hand.

[splotchwork5000]

u know now that i reconsider the thought, i bet it was time consuming rather than being what i said prier a month ago.

[jeopardy60611]

Well, my belief is that the objects are very basic, and the movement is very simple. Since they don't have to do voices with moving mouths, and there is only a single object moving at a time, it's probably easier than annimating the typical Scooby Doo episode or anything of the sort.

[terronjb]

LOVE IT-I WANNA CRY

[pomurphy]

this mesmerized me as a child

[splotchwork5000]

the guy when he started to sing reminded me of Harry Belefonte...i guess that's a good thing.

[HeAvEnLyStAyFLy]

I find this video great...although I can't quite figure out why???

[solmonhut]

It must have been 20 years or so scince ive seen this, I think i forgot about it ever since.

[rjolliffe]

Those morphing objects does not maske me dizzy.

[tubricant]

This song jams. One of my favorites growing up. Nice morphing too! Sesame Street used quite a bit of steel drums in their seventies shorts... anyone remember the one about the kids making a steel drum out of a garbage can? I wish someone would post that one!

[sirnicholasevan]

Ha! I loved this cartoon and the uplifting, accompanying music when I was younger.

[dispatcher484]

I seem to remember this with a different soundtrack.

[sawing14s]

How different? In terms of music?

[tpirman1982]

Ya' gotta love the steel drums in this song!

[ISNorden]

Not half bad...I wonder whether the animator planned this as a companion piece to "That's About the Size".

[mstatz]

I was almost going to post this one! Thanks for doing it 1st!