Sesame Street - Film is magic

Another early 70's classic Sesame Street short film clip about the magic of film. It can be stopped, sped up, slowed down or played backwards. Nice banjo music too. I'm sure many will remember this one!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sesame
• Street
• film
• magic
• stop
• forward
• slow
• backwards
• banjo

[briansky10]

OH JOY!!!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING TO FIND THIS VIDEO FOR SOOOOOO LONG!!! The banjo music I think holds the whole segment together!! Plus the children's commands! God bless Sesame Street for creating this!! GREAT TO BE WITH IT AGAIN!!

[mstatz]

I'm surprised you know this one. They last aired it a couple of years before you were born unless you saw it on Noggin when you were 7 or 8.

[pokinsmot]

how do you know when they last aired it? not trying to challenge you are anything, im just curious how youe so knowledgeable...

[mstatz]

I'm going by when I recorded this sometime in 1986. They aired it until about 1988 or 1989. Sesame Street went through a huge transformation after that and quit airing old classic Sesame Street skits. I know because I painfully watched until 1993.

[trashberd]

You're listening to Pony Express. GREAT banjo tune. Song can be found on Deliverance soundtrack.

[mstatz]

Thanks for telling me! I've had "Deliverance" soundtrack for years (vinyl album then CD) and I've NEVER noticed it before! I remember hearing Dueling Banjos when I was a very little kid. I was 4 years old when Deliverance came out. The main reason why I never noticed before was mostly because I listen to only two songs on the CD: "Dueling Banjos" and "End of a dream". Thanks again for the info.

[iswc27]

As an early Gen-Xer, I was among Sesame Street's first viewers, and yes, I remember this clip VERY well! The slow-motion and stop-action imagery with that amazing banjo-pickin' made this clip unforgettable! Thank you, mstatz, for posting this! A classic!

[iwantoldschool]

@bwfjk Please thank him for me.

[iwantoldschool]

@Thundergod25 YEAHHHH!  SAME HERE! :)

[iwantoldschool]

@johnnyboy8593 You still can. I wanted to do, and today, I am. Go out and get a real movie camera, and order some film stock from Kodak.  It's not expensive.

Johnny, go out and DO IT.

[iwantoldschool]

Mike, this is Heather (Raposofan) posting. Thank you so much for having posted this. When I was a kid, I took this clip so seriously: "Film is magic. And this is a film, so you can be magic for three minutes." Those words stuck with me. I never forgot them.

I am watching this clip now, tonight, because I'm directing my first feature film, and today I reserved the great big camera at Panavision for the shoot!

I owe this segment. It taught me film was magic. And it is.

Thank you :D

[johnnyboy8593]

That movie had really inspired me, and I wanted to be able to do things like that.

[1dabirdman]

let me tell you something,i was the sesame street generation.i started watching in 1969 and continued watching thru the 70s, they may have shown alot of these clips up through the 80s, but i can assure you i'm an original sesame st. viewer.thank you for posting though,great preschool primer.

[MsPandaRosa]

@bwfjk

I don't blame you, I'd be mad too :)

[buzzlewie]

I also forgot to mention. May the force be with you, get it.

[buzzlewie]

"STOP! GO BACKWARDS! STOP! GO FORWARD!"

[spy4863]

I've always loved this film too! Thanks for posting it! In case anyone's interested, the name of the banjo tune used in the background is "The Pony Express". It's a wonderful old bluegrass classic. I play the banjo myself!