A book trailer for a detective story about the bombing at Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy, december 1969. Terrorism as a strategy, fire and tears -- and a man that discovers by chance some unbelievable old   more...photos. Read the book for free (copyleft) on http://www.vibrisselibri.net (italian only) - This Book Trailer is released under a Creative Commons License by GRENAR LABS.  less

From Episode 158: Ernie asks Cookie Monster to help him with a lecture about the letter A, and shows an apple as a visual aid. Cookie Monster, true to form, eats the apple...by tossing it into his mouth   more...in one gulp. (Some of the earliest sketches with Cookie included that visual gag; I wonder if any preschoolers tried to imitate it?) NOTE: This sketch first appeared in Episode 47 of Sesame Street.  less

From Episode 158: A jazzy rewrite of a well-known counting rhyme, featuring a VERY talented sea creature. (NOTE: This clip originally aired in Episode 4.)

From Episode 158: The seventh in a series of psychedelic song/cartoons about the numbers 2-10. (Because Sesame Street seldom used 1 as a "sponsor number" until the mid-80s, the animators never   more...drew a Jazz #1 cartoon.) Grace Slick performs the vocals in these cartoons; Denny Zeitlin composed the instrumental music. (NOTE: This clip first aired in Episode 16. It's also the only Jazz Number cartoon to make a play on words; when Israeli producers dubbed it into Hebrew, the "eight/ate" connection got lost in translation.)  less

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Jimi Hendrix, Royal Albert hall 1969, Live concert

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A vintage Bert & Ernie sketch from 1969--and one of the few times that Bert successfully fools his roommate, too. (According to Muppet Wiki, this sketch first aired in Episode 14 of Sesame Street.)

a funny video of the first moon landing

THE BIG MATCH 1969-70

From Test Show #1: Gordon shows the children a raccoon; after they talk about the animal and watch it eat, Susan's offscreen voice announces the sponsors for this episode. (Yes, I have an unedited copy   more...of the test show thanks to trading with a friend; unfortunately, Maurice Sendak's publisher is as lawsuit-happy as Viacom, so I couldn't include the clip with Bob reading "Where the Wild Things Are". Sorry!)  less

From Test Show #1: A spoof of 1960s spy comedies which was supposed to teach both letters and problem-solving skills. Unfortunately, CTW's tests showed that children weren't learning from it; they were   more...also concerned that someone might try to crash through glass doors like the hero.  less

From Test Show #1: Two more clips about the number two-- First, Bert and Ernie correct each other during a discussion of body parts that come in pairs. Second, one of ten classic films that show people   more...counting various objects and animals; most fans know this one better as "Baker #2". (Jim Henson's singing voice is dubbed in during the falling-baker gag at the end.)  less

From Test Show #1: Susan introduces a film of various zoo animals, all of which appear in pairs.

From Test Show #1: Two lessons--geometry and tolerance--combine in this story about a jazz-loving triangle and a more conventional square. (Pun not intended on my part, but probably intended by the   more...animator!)  less

From Test Show #1: Listen My Brother (an ensemble from Harlem, New York) performs a gospel-style song about the importance of education.

From "This Way to Sesame Street": A man has trouble finding words that begin with X, so he decides to list words that end with X instead--using several visual aids that appear from nowhere.   more... (Considering the name of the company that sponsored this preview special, whoever decided to include this cartoon had an ironic sense of humor!)  less

From "This Way to Sesame Street": The first letter clip that Ernie and Bert show as an example of a Sesame Street "commercial"; it also appeared twice (complete with Carol Burnett's   more...remark!) in Episode 1.  less