Sesame Street - Sad flower film

Here is the very famous flower film with Vivaldi music played in the background. Specifically, it is Guitar Concerto in D Major, 2nd Movement by Antonio Vivaldi. This was pulled so I'm posting it from my collection. I've always loved this one and it brings back memories for me of watching this when I got home from kindergarten (1973-1974). Anyone care to comment about exactly what this segment is telling us? The beautiful music really makes the segment for me. A very great and nostalgic Sesame street film. Special thanks to Sesame Street Workshop for allowing me to post this here. All copyrights and profits for ALL Sesame Street segments belong to them!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sesame
• Street
• film
• 70's
• flower
• sad
• music
• Antonio
• Vivaldi
• Guitar
• Concerto
• Major
• 2nd
• Movement

[torontonian1978]

I thought I was the only one who tears up with old sesame street clips. it's truly comforting to know my sentiments are not just rose-tinted nostalgia - it really was as good as I remember it. Long live classic sesame street and its genuine love for children

[bronzepumpkin]

It just amazes me how many people, when kids, found this clip to be sad -- I remember very distinctly that I would often leave the room when this particular clip came on because it made me so sad! I couldn't, and still can't, explain why. The other one that made me sad was "Daddy Dear" (you can find that on Youtube too). The emotional recognition in me while watching this is powerful.

[atomic3939]

@mojojojo928 The guitarist playing it in the sesame street clip is classical guitarist Julian Bream

[atomic3939]

@wmbrown6 This version from the sesame street clip....is by the classical guitarist Julian Bream

[SHExxLIKESxxBARINAS]

*sob*

oh damnit now im bawling like a baby

its a freaking flower!! argh!

time to go punch a wall

[uofmrules1]

Like a lot of other skits, I as a kid never understood where this fit into SS, but who cares? I've always loved this music, and I love the skit even more now.

[critters999999999]

To: I Want Old School - All of us, today, in the present, are products of our history. The video touched you, and rightfuly so, because you were homesick for NYC. The video has the ability to touch people in different ways for different reasons. The video, for the multitude of different people who view it, has a multitude of different interpretations. It is a classic!!

[iwantoldschool]

I sense the clip speaks to universal loneliness. It may hit our generation particularly hard because we are surrounded by two extremely shallow, narcissistic generations crushing us between and beneath them, and no one seems interested in noticing us -- the tender, quiet flower growing up unseen by the passing world.

I think the segment speaks to the loneliness of Generation X, and that is why it hits us emotionally very hard. Said as a kid who is FROM where this flower is growing up.

[iwantoldschool]

@critters999999999 As a kid from New York City, please allow me to offer another viewpoint. I cried watching this as a child because I missed home -- New York. My parents moved us to Atlanta, and I watched this from Atlanta, knowing I was from New York City and was no longer there. I wept because I felt like the stranded flower, trapped on a windowsill far away from the buildings and streets I belonged in. Isn't that funny?

[rdangelo]

This is in the wrong key!

[critters999999999]

Sorry!! The movie was Pretty Woman where they played the song.

[critters999999999]

I think I heard this haunting music in a scene in "Pretty Baby". It was when she was in the limo going home at the end of the movie. The music brought back memories of how sad I was when I saw, for the first time 35 years ago, where the flower was trying to survive. I Googled it and was shocked and so happy to revisit an old friend. I wonder how many other: flowers, stray cats, unloved children are also trying to grow up in a grey concrete jungle.