Release Date | May 3, 2011 |
Produced by | Warner Home Video |
Catalogue no. | SS00217 |
Format | DVD |
Discs | 1 |
Region | 1 |
ASIN |
Elmo's Travel Songs and Games is a Sesame Street DVD released in 2011.[1] The video was written by Christine Ferraro and directed by Scott Preston.
Segments[]
- Song: "Go Before You Go"
- Abby and Elmo pretend to drive cars.
- Films: Looking for rectangles, triangles and other shapes in the city (Maria's voice-over replaced)
- Song: "I'm in Great Shape"
- Animation: The Twiddlebugs try to fix their flat tire.
- Animation: Cecille sings "I'm Gonna Get to You." (no intro, new sound effects)
- Film: A girl narrates a film of herself taking the bus home with her dad. They play a game where she points to things and identifies them.
- "Forty Blocks from My Home" (inter-cut with Elmo and Abby)
- Baby Bear appears in "The Bear Went Over the Mountain."
- Ernie gets Bert to play a rhyming game.
- Animation: Kids see different objects in the clouds, including a train, a drum and a tiger.
- Film: The letters of the alphabet are found in signs all over the city. (voice-over replaced)
- Animation: The letter M in store signs. (voice-over replaced)
- Animation: "Alphabet Town"
- Song: "We Got a Hip-Hop Beat" #8
- "Goin' for a Ride" (played during the credits)
Promotions[]
Characters from Sesame Street appeared at several airports in May 2011 to help Delta Air Lines kick off the summer travel season and promote the release of the Elmo's Travel Songs and Games DVD. The Muppets made gate announcements, greeted fans and took photos with the Delta customers. Additionally the DVD was shown as part of Delta's in-flight entertainment on certain flights between June and August.
- On May 2, Elmo and Cookie Monster appeared at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
- On May 3, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Grover appeared at LaGuardia Airport.
- On May 5, Elmo and Grover appeared at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
On May 3, 2011, Elmo appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote the release.
Notes[]
- Wal-Mart sells the DVD packaged with an Elmo t-shirt.
- The Australian edition of the DVD has included the "Beat the Time" sketch featuring Elmo.
International releases[]
Cast[]
Starring The Muppets of Sesame Street:
- Tyler Bunch, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Matt Vogel
- Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Camille Kampouris, John Kennedy, Jim Martin, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, David Rudman, Martin P. Robinson, Caroll Spinney, Mark Zeszotek
- and Kevin Clash as Elmo
Credits[]
- Executive Producer: Carol-Lynn Parente
- Co-Executive Producer: Kevin Clash
- Coordinating Producer: April Chadderdon
- Supervising Producer: Melissa Dino
- Producers: Tim Carter, Benjamin Lehmann
- Film Producer: Christine Walters
- Directed by: Scott Preston, Lisa Simon, Emily Squires, Jon Stone
- Original Home Video Content Written by: Christine Ferraro
- Library Content Written by: Christine Ferraro, Ray Sipherd
- Production Designer: Bob Phillips
- Senior Muppet Consultant: Kevin Clash
- Assistant Muppet Captain: Matt Vogel
- Jim Henson's Creature Shop
- Puppet Workshop Crew: Jason Weber, Connie Peterson, Rollie Krewson, Heather Asch, Marc Borders, Loryn Brantz, Morgan Street, Alana Dematteo
- Musical Director: Loren Toolajian
- Musical Director - Studio: Paul Rudolph
- Composers: JP Rende, Kathryn Raio, Russell Velazquez, Christopher Cerf, Steven Frailey, Paul Jacobs, Sam Pottle, Carl Sharpley, Elliot Sokolov
- Lyricists: Christine Ferraro, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, Al Jarnow, Jerry Juhl, Matt Goldman, Carl Sharpley, Gabriel Tolliver
- Theme Music by: Joe Raposo
- Associate Producers: Theresa Anderson, Mindy Fila, Todd E. James
- Graphics: Rickey Boyd
- Associate Director: Ken Diego
- Sound Effects: Dick Maitland, C.A.S.
- Technical Director: Tom Guadarrama
- Cameras: Frank Biondo, Jerry Cancel, Shaun Harkins
- Utility: Chuck Tutino, Gordon Price, Keith Guadarrama
- Production Assistants: Geri Cole, Andrew Moriarty
- DVD Production: Frank Campagna, Franco Schettino, William D'Amico
- For Sesame Workshop: David Albano, Taska Carrigan, Fay Corinotis, Helen Cuesta, Alicia Durand, Jocelyn Leong, Sharon Lyew, Louis Henry Mitchell, Kimi Sokol
- Special Thanks: Soapbox Films, Berkeley Hall School, Matt Vogel
- Vice President of Education and Research: Rosemarie T. Truglio, Ph.D.
- Sesame Street Education and Research: Jennifer R. Schiffman, M.S.Ed., Autumn P. Zitani Stefano, M.A.
- Taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios