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Sesame Street Number Segments

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Segments with their own pagesEdit

Acrobat PigsEdit

Animal Rock BandEdit

Clown HonkingEdit

Colorblock gridEdit

Computer MatchingEdit

Dancing PetroglyphsEdit

Dancing with KidsEdit

Growing NumbersEdit

A series of stop-motion animated segments, featuring ornate cutouts of numbers from 1 to 20 growing from and receding into the surface in a variety of park and city scenes. The segments appeared by Season 23 at earliest.

The various installations in the series differ chiefly by the amount of film being shown.

Kid Mural PaintingEdit

Marching BandEdit

Masked MarchEdit

Called "Parade of Numbers" on the Sesame Street Video Player.

Milo CountingEdit

A series of segments where a man in an outdoor scene holds and presents sequential numbers from 1 to up to 13. The respective scenes for each number use "pixellation" effects, with the man often taking part in improbable activities such as emerging from a lake or sliding across a field. Caleb Sampson composed the score for each segment.

Number AstronautsEdit

Number CreaturesEdit

An Emmy-award winning series of computer animated segments featuring stylized numbers ending from 13 to 20. The segments were written, directed and animated by Merrill Aldighieri, and were produced for CTW by Arlene Sherman. The music for the segments was composed by Fred Reed.

Numbers in Outer SpaceEdit

OK, We Got a Hip-Hop BeatEdit

Ornate NumbersEdit

An assortment of live-action segments featuring decorated numbers on outdoor locations, becoming animated usually through the use of "pixellation" effects. Several segments featured brief rock jingles written by Christopher Cerf,^[1] while others simply showed the number (attached to a metal rod) swinging across the screen.

Rap AnimationEdit

A series of recurring cartoons in which various collections of objects such as shapes, cookies, fingers, and units of time are totaled, narrated by a child's hip-hop lyrics describing and rhyming the items at hand.