Classic Sesame Street - Block civilization

Who knew you could do so much with simple building blocks?

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  Film & Animation

[JuanMamaril]

This was one of my favorite Sesame street mini clips that they used to air back in the 80's. Now it's all that retarded Elmo crap

[tomperri23]

Yes we used an ARP 2600. Talk about vintage. You had to connect everything with plugin wires, like a patchbay in a recording studio. It was, for the time, Like Waaay state of the art and then some, because I heard things in my head that the 2600 had never done before, but my "team" made it happen. T Perri

[Shades Below]

This always reminded me of Keith Emerson's playing and sounds, especially at the 0:55 mark.

[waltergalt]

"Dagnabbit, back when I was a boy..."

Yep. After a certain period of cultural degeneration that turns out to be a valid sentiment after all. I watch a lot of children's programming. Would like to be in it myself, except the aesthetic seems to have changed irreversibly from -- as you see, above -- to purest shite. Lucky you to be so at ease with mediocrity though.

[nigel bates]

some of these remide me of inca structures

[plasticbarf]

these shorts used to give me nightmares

[Steven Teti]

OK, now this is the kind of brilliance that made Sesame Street wa=hat it was!

[pvx]

I totally agree with you, that particular part sounds so epic....!

[patrickballoonman]

Stop motion animation at its most elaborate!

[excelsior27]

happy7117 & Ahuebner2004, you are so right! The music at 1:34 starts the good part of the clip. The best is at 1:43! It makes me want to dance!

[loveutoto]

Awesome! This reminds me of another stop-motion film with blocks. There were three toys: a robot, a duck, and a car. They were demonstrating things like "over" and "around."

[muzikman183]

so thats where the Jenga blocks came from