Sesame Street | |||||||
The magnificent block building | |||||||
Air date | March 10, 1970 | ||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon watches as Kwami and Paul build a couple of block towers in front of 123 Sesame Street. Gordon asks, "How would you like to take a trip to the beach? And while we're there, let's see how many different kinds of animals we can find that live in the water." | |
Film | "Boy at Beach" A boy walks on the beach, and sees a sandpiper, a crab, a hermit crab, and other animals. (First: Episode 0008) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert have difficulty scratching their backs, so both help each other scratch their back. While Ernie's itch takes a little too long to scratch, he introduces a film called "Everybody Scratch." After the film, Ernie notices that Bert has stopped scratching his back; Beautiful Day Monster is. (First: Episode 0012) | |
SCENE 2 | Gordon reacts to the film, scratching himself as the buildings in front of the steps has grown some. "At least I've only got one itch. This guy's got four!" | |
Film | An itchy wombat scratches its four legs. (with Gordon commentary) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0008) | |
Film | Four Song (Song of Four) (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | "Count Up Elevator" -- An elevator operator stops at ten floors to pick up passengers, including a witch, a fireman, and a kangaroo. The tenth passenger, a mouse, causes the elevator to overload and explode. (First: Episode 0003) | |
SCENE 3 | The block towers are now fairly formidable. Gordon comments how the previous film's elevator was a weird way to travel, and prefers other modes... | |
Film | Transportation (First: Episode 0005) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie, dressed in his football uniform, marches around the apartment reciting his team chant. He tells Bert he's a member of the Dirty Rugs, named such because everyone beats them. (First: Episode 0009) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Z" -- A figure tries to sell a Z. His only customer stops him by locking him inside a zoo cage. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0085) | |
Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (with revised music) (First: Episode 0004) | |
SCENE 4 | Lance joins Gordon and the kids, and discuss what the constructions could be. Kwami says he's building the Empire State Building, and Paul is making a space station. Gordon points out a section of it where the blocks are arranged in order of descending height. | |
Film | A boy arranges white blocks by size while his dog watches. (First: Episode 0049) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert hears the phone ringing inside a basket, and asks Ernie to answer it. Ernie goes through the basket, and finds a banana. He pretends it's a phone, and gives it to Bert to talk on. Ernie answers the real phone, and tells the caller that Bert can't come to the phone because he's talking on the banana. (First: Episode 0004) | |
SCENE 5 | The kids take a break from block building as Susan reads them a story: Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats. After the story, Susan points out a section that demonstrates "near" and "far." | |
Muppets | Grover demonstrates the difference between "near" and "far" by running away from the camera and back, eventually fainting from exhaustion. (First: Episode 0057) | |
Film | Kids demonstrate perspective using large and small rocks as they position themselves near and far. (First: Episode 0045) | |
Muppets | Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing! (First: Episode 0005) | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0079) | |
Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) | |
SCENE 6 | The block structures have grown even more as Gordon and the kids list what kind of things the structures could be now. Gordon thinks they could be a zoo, housing elephants and monkeys. | |
Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) | |
Film | Footage of various bird species including hens, flamingos, pigeons, owls, ostriches, cockatoos, and others. Music: (piano and whistling) Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0019) | |
Muppets | Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Grocer and Doctor. (First: Episode 0067) | |
SCENE 7 | Susan notes how the residents of Sesame Street may not be the same kind of people in the neighborhood as others are, which include a Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, a "cookie-eating monster," and a nice frog named Kermit who has a beautiful song to sing. | |
Muppets | Kermit the Frog sings "Bein' Green". | |
Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0005) | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to carry an ironing board (horizontally) from one room to another. (First: Episode 0002) | |
SCENE 8 | Susan plays two rounds of "Three of These Things" using pictures of different shapes. | |
Cartoon | A man asks a purple fellow what G word is behind a circus curtain. It's a gorilla. Artist: Film Fair (First: Episode 0085) | |
Cartoon | G for Gorilla (in man suit) (First: Episode 0085) | |
Cartoon | A goat discusses the letter "G". A man comes by to also talk about G, but rather than point out that "goat" is a G word, he observes the grass. Disgusted, the goat butts the man out of the way. (First: Episode 0085) | |
Film | Filmfair G: A man asks a purple fellow what G word is behind a circus curtain. It's a gorilla. (repeat) | |
SCENE 9 | Gordon invites the viewer to look for G words around Sesame Street. He points out some grass, a game of horseshoes, and a paper glider. He arrives at the steps, where the block buildings are huger than ever, and exclaims they're great. Gordon's final G word is "Good-bye." Susan announces the sponsors and today's book. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Susan and Gordon hold the Sesame Street sign, and Kermit holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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