Wednesday, November 4, 2009

sesame street 40th anniversary

sesame street 40th anniversary
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street is, Google is running a-doodle Big Bird on his site. Cute orange bird-pink legs form the "L" in Google. The popular 10-foot feathered friend is one of several characters who leave the program during its long history. Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Snuffy, and the count is a little more.
The children's television series actually debuted on November 10, 1969--so we're still a few days away from the actual birthday. When the show premiered it was ground-breaking.
As author Malcolm Gladwell has stated, "Sesame Street was built around a single, breakthrough insight: that if you can hold the attention of children, you can educate them." Sesame Street was the first children's show that structured each episode and made "small but critical adjustments" to each segment to capture children's attention long enough to teach them something. Each segment is like a commercial.
The Children's Television Workshop in the show and the producers and authors of the program was built around an inner-city brownstones on the street, the vote was "unprecedented" at the time, the author Michael Davis, 2008 his book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. Their intention was to attract viewers to a real city street in the downtown area, by peeling paint, added lanes, and bends the front.

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