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> And wow you weren’t wrong. Early seasons were producing a new episode nearly every weekday for half the year. 130+ episodes per year. Though, if I remember

> And wow you weren’t wrong. Early seasons were producing a new episode nearly every weekday for half the year. 130+ episodes per year. Though, if I remember Sesame Street correctly, those episodes heavily reused content between episodes (e.g. I probably saw this segment literally hundreds of times as a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_MEFVx5jM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_MEFVx5jM), so that might be less work than it seems.

mh- 4y ago
Oh wow, that link. Before I clicked I was thinking: "there's no way I'd remember a specific sesame street segment I saw as a kid, no matter how many times." As soon as I clicked it and saw the girls sitting at the table, I remembered the swirling orange colors.. and sure enough, next scene. Thanks for this. I'd guess it's been at least 30 years since I'd seen it.
allturtles 4y ago
Wow, that's a brilliant little piece of visual storytelling. No narration required for a child (or adult) to know exactly what's going on.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  > Wow, that's a brilliant little piece of visual storytelling. No narration required for a child (or adult) to know exactly what's going on. Well, not exactly. Just watching it again as an adult, I just realized that I don't really know what the man is dumping into wax mixer at 0:26. I'd always assumed it was wax, but now I think it's probably orange pigment.
  - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    Is that important?
    - tablespoon 4y ago
      > Is that important? It is if the question is if the video shows you exactly what is going on. It's not if the video is meant to mostly be just interesting pictures that give general sense of what a factory that makes crayons is "like."
oliyoung 4y ago
There are millions of us who still count to 12 like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcx44e2gnfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcx44e2gnfI
- Corrado 4y ago
  And if I rmember correctly, the ladies singing the song were the Pointer Sisters. They really did have some great music on Sesame Street / Electric Company.

mh- 4y ago

Oh wow, that link. Before I clicked I was thinking: "there's no way I'd remember a specific sesame street segment I saw as a kid, no matter how many times." As soon as I clicked it and saw the girls sitting at the table, I remembered the swirling orange colors.. and sure enough, next scene. Thanks for this. I'd guess it's been at least 30 years since I'd seen it.

allturtles 4y ago

Wow, that's a brilliant little piece of visual storytelling. No narration required for a child (or adult) to know exactly what's going on.

tablespoon 4y ago
> Wow, that's a brilliant little piece of visual storytelling. No narration required for a child (or adult) to know exactly what's going on. Well, not exactly. Just watching it again as an adult, I just realized that I don't really know what the man is dumping into wax mixer at 0:26. I'd always assumed it was wax, but now I think it's probably orange pigment.
- Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  Is that important?
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    > Is that important? It is if the question is if the video shows you exactly what is going on. It's not if the video is meant to mostly be just interesting pictures that give general sense of what a factory that makes crayons is "like."

oliyoung 4y ago

There are millions of us who still count to 12 like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcx44e2gnfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcx44e2gnfI

Corrado 4y ago
And if I rmember correctly, the ladies singing the song were the Pointer Sisters. They really did have some great music on Sesame Street / Electric Company.