Name: How Sesame Street Is Made
Uploaded: 2018-07-01T21:01:02.000Z
Duration: 7 min 5 s
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- In 1969 our founders, Joan Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett

They had noticed that kids could repeat beer jingles.

which is a show that's now been on the air almost 50 years.

and has gone through many iterations over the years.

as well as all of the technical and stage crew

and camera people and costume designers, et cetera.

It really does take a village to bring this show together.

in child development, child psychology, preschool teachers.

and they review all the scripts and give feedback

So we'll take some of the scripts into schools,

Our production cycle is essentially a 12-month cycle.

You know, from the moment of that curriculum seminar,

Jim Henson, you know, obviously his impact

and he was the one who brought The Muppets to Sesame Street.

because all of our puppeteers are trained, basically,

and just use the TV frame as my puppet theater

And our puppeteers are trained in those methods

and we'll bring them in a day here, a day there.

There's essentially three categories of puppets.

So that's Big Bird or Snuffy, for example,

- Then there's what we call a bag puppet.

So that's, like, Cookie Monster or The Count.

- And so there the puppet covers the puppeteer.

The puppeteer's operating the mouth with one hand

and is operating one of the hands with another

which we usually call the assistant puppeteer,

and that person comes behind and operates the other hand

Then third kind of puppet is what we call a rod puppet.

those are typically operated by a single puppeteer.

They hold two rods which operate the hands

and then they're operating the mouth this way.

The primary puppeteer is always the person

how could you mistake the mushroom for cookies?

- So, the most recent and probably most talked about

who's a young girl who's on the Autism spectrum.

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