Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary – on Google
This is a guest post by Google Doodle
Google gifs have been celebrating Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary over the past few days with a grand finale today:
Sesame Street was always considered an experiment. When the very first episode aired on Nov. 10, 1969, the show seemed to pose one big unanswered question: Could children learn from television?
Forty years later, that question has been answered. Millions of kids can thank the program for the 1-2-3s and A-B-Cs, but what have the show’s actors and producers learned from their grand experiment? Let’s count eight lessons of Sesame Street.
Read on here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120245506
And from the Guardian’s technology blog
The popular television series actually celebrates its birthday on 10 November, when there will be an anniversary show featuring US First Lady Michelle Obama.
New York City has proclaimed 10 November “Sesame Street Day”, and will announce a temporary street naming (at Columbus Avenue and 64th Street) in honour of the programme. Sesame Street: A Celebration of Forty Years of Life on the Street, and Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street are the latest additions to the literary.
The show is now broadcast in more than 140 countries and has won 122 Emmy awards.
Comments
| 15 November, 2009, 12:16 pm |
Happy birthday to Sesame’s Street!
As a boy I grew up with this show, and it has had a big part in my childhood, and now my children are watching it as well with great enjoyment!
| 17 November, 2009, 4:04 am |
I like how Google can play with the logo and remind people of popular info and history about things.
Good post
Jack
| 18 November, 2009, 1:01 pm |
Does someone know if they are making new episodes of the series?
How can I get old episodes?
| 9 December, 2009, 3:52 am |
I’m not arguing. London is a great place if you are young and solvent. But eventually you notice the tramps and the disadvantaged kids and the neurotic driving instructors clamping desperatly to a conspiracy theory in order to make sense of it all (or as we call them “Spiked”)
| 12 January, 2010, 7:53 pm |
Driving Instructors are not neurotic or at least not the ones I know.
| 3 February, 2010, 3:54 pm |
Driving Instructors are not neurotic or at least not the ones I know
| 14 February, 2010, 10:32 am |
Time moves sooo fast, sesame street is something special to each and everyone one of us.
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