Classic Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles

All 4 segments taken from episode 1448.

[@geocircles]

Designed and Animated by Cathryn Aison who commissioned Philip glass to write and record the music.

[@jeremyas9999]

Thank you for creating this! I watched Sesame Street in the early 1980s and this is one of those segments that always stuck with me. Now I get to show it to my kids!

[@lovemeg5186]

You are amazing Cathryn.I also enjoy Philip Glass.

[@tpirman1982]

Awesome design and animation.

[@DonnieDarko1]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@btoskich]

It's a masterpiece and forever captivating. Thank you Cathryn and Philip!

[@agentgumby4418]

1:58 is when the sorcerer goes ape on the pipe organ and his acolytes begin chanting ecstatically as they recklessly summon shapes from the netherworld.

[@RoseWaltz]

this was terrifyingly fascinating as a little kid i still play with geometry to this day

[@DonnieDarko1]

❤

[@LynxDaemon19]

this was terrifyingly fascinating just now as an adult

[@lokiarn15]

I cant believe I finally found this after over 40 years. The memory didnt lie

[@beximus]

RIGHT!? i JUST found out what this really was because a friend of mine remembered! I told her that i remembered some animated segment in sesame street just vaguely remembering circles and i tried to imitate the only thing i remembered about its haunting vocals. im surprised that since i only saw it once at the age of 4 i actually got the 2 notes i remembered right, 37 years later

[@Orange6921]

@@beximus Same here, I was 4 when I saw this in 79-80. Its was hauntingly awesome and burned into my 4 year old brain.

[@joeguevara1145]

This mesmerised me as a kid years ago. It still does. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@robertorick6383]

A few years before I heard of "Koyannisquatssi" and Philip Glass. His music just mesmerizes and hypnotizes. I never found this segment creepy, just beautiful.

[@DavidListen_Buddhism]

This memory is so deep. I was amazed as a child and still am now. Visually and musically awesome

[@ChristiRich]

This was my first introduction to Glass' works, and I still love them.

[@DonnieDarko1]

❤

[@IanJones942]

I was today years old when I learned this was Glass' work.

[@AckerPodds]

This music gets stuck in my head all the time, and when I whistle it, I sound insane

[@aaronr9023]

I am so @$#! happy I found this. I was sucked into this one as a child. I remember being glued to the screen when this came on.

[@DonnieDarko1]

Same!

[@dragondancer1814]

Me three, and I got my own kids hooked on classic Sesame Street clips too!

[@alexandergonzie1200]

Jesus, these segments always scared the hell out of me as a child, especially the music! I'm almost 40 and they still send chills down my spine!

[@robertanderson2898]

LOL, many skits had that effect on me. It's like, what the hell were they trying to do to us kids.....!?

[@colleenhughes6643]

SAME. When they aired the same episode all week, I'd start to memorize when one of these came up and run out of the room till it was over.

[@krystalharwood6359]

i like the updated with the tambourine

[@themysteriousunknownrevealed]

It totally reminds me of a Alejandro Jodorowsky film.

[@LuficariusRatspeed]

I guess this is what Vulcan Opera would sound like.

[@GSmashGaming]

Live long and prosper

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

For some reason I had so much trouble finding this upload again! Glad it's not gone!

[@LuckyPunkProd]

The missing track from Koyaanisqatsi.

[@WindowshadeCure]

What are you're seeing here is the exact thing thing that Cookie Monster saw after he ate some suspicious cookies that Lefty the Salesmen sold him ("me wonder why he call them hash cookies")

[@GolfhausYT]

If this went on for six hours... I'd watch all of it.

[@georgestaunton6994]

Kids were SO much more sophisticated back then!

[@dragondancer1814]

So was the programming designed for their education!

[@Jennifer-jx8xg]

Music reminds me of one of the dungeons in Legend of Zelda OOT. Love Classic Sesame Street animations.

[@sleepysmiles7613]

OOT!!!! One of the best Zelda EVER!!! Great reference! =)

[@barb7124]

FOREST TEMPLE!!!

[@chazzwozzio]

@@barb7124 another haunting theme. Those violins haunt my dreams

[@unionpinesorchestra]

I have been wondering about for this for years! I remembered the music, but didn't know what it was. Thanks for posting!

[@DonnieDarko1]

❤❤❤❤

[@gamersam3920]

Imagine if the universe and the planets were made in a way like this.

[@richardlafleur8389]

That's kind of the point.

[@heatherschulz-behrend7917]

Yes love this one it's memories of growing up with friends I called it the ahh sounds like they're saying city for the c note

[@earthrisetime4609]

I am just seeing this for the first time, though I have to believe that the energy of it’s existence has influenced my path. I also now wonder if I may have seen this but was too young to now recall the experience.

[@lvgolfer35]

Psychedelia and opera combined with moving geometric figures all brought to life! The electric keyboard, organ along with the minor vocals sounded like an absolute advanced measure of mindfulness strictly focused on keeping you hooked for eternity.

[@TheFurriestOne]

The vertical hold is slightly loose (and might give me a headache over time with the bouncing), but I thank you for having both segments in decent quality!

[@eEdselEdsel]

I remember the first time I saw this at the age of five or six years old and thinking that, as a viewer, I wasn't being condescended to because I was a little kid.

[@MichaelPuterbaugh]

I learned a lot about circles from this (they are round)

[@Strandysmommy]

I was transfixed by this as a child. I was…dare I say obsessed. Probably the first hint I was (and continue to be) autistic!

[@mana_beast_beats1114]

I've been trying to remember this forever.... that and the "Milk" song with the piano.

[@slapshot68]

This should be added to the Jim Henson exhibit in NYC

[@pch8236]

My 4-year old asks me to play this for the 8th time already...

[@dragondancer1814]

When I discovered the wealth of classic Sesame Street clips on KZbin, my kids and I proceeded to kill nine hours one day watching them! Their verdict? Modern Sesame Street SUCKS compared to this!

[@joshgellis3292]

Don't watch past 11 p.m. . It just takes on a whole new, disturbing meaning. lol.

[@danielesobers3855]

Ooo I'm scared

[@danielesobers3855]

What is this ":new disturbing meaning"?

[@AlexiaBobadilla]

Hey im watching this at 06:50AM

[@andrewtodaro2874]

I’m watching this past 1 am and I’m not scared!

[@dorourke105]

They turned into rainbow pacmans at the end

[@andrewtodaro2874]

Reminds me of the mathematical illustrations in Euclid’s Elements! 🙂

[@Thewritingelf]

This is awesome !

[@tedwoe]

Wow! I don't remember these at all but I absolutely love them!!!

[@arturohernandezlinares9399]

This is not creepy like tv tropes say, is relaxing and had rythm the word circle

[@DollyNipples]

Imagine Edward Elric somehow warping himself to the 1980s in our world and seeing this animation. Wonder how he'd react.

[@JTHMSqueeMrEffDBoy]

Feels like it came straight out of the Norman McLaren school of animation

[@godfreypoon5148]

Tripping balls? no, tripping circles.

[@eevee2esponfan]

This is oddly relaxing

[@maritzadejesus6726]

I like it and I love it it’s like I’m flying in the rainbows that why

[@Solar_Planet_YT]

All 4 of them are all parts of the animation.

[@arkbien9303]

Can anybody tell me what exactly the first and last segments were supposed to be teaching?

[@heatherschulz-behrend2638]

This is the aaah that is what it sounds like.

[@lornamagboo9875]

we need it as mercedez benz

[@AcidicGothess]

Helvetica standaaard. That's what this music makes me think of.

[@austinsimmons4393]

Somebody please help me learn geometry, please. Lol 😆

[@robertanderson2898]

I think i failed Geometry :O and i saw this clip many times as a kid :)

[@rathesungod4]

They just did😆

[@robertanderson2898]

Pac-Man (or Men) at the end!!!!

[@adamneuman1232]

What's the song name ?

[@MattKoplowitz]

I was always confused when I saw this

[@heathers2706]

A church organ and it's nice

[@cainster]

OH GOD I CAN SEE FOREVER

[@speedgriffon2504]

No you can't.

[@cainster]

@@speedgriffon2504 That breeze is the joke going over your head.

[@speedgriffon2504]

@@cainster Neither could Cthulu.

[@cainster]

@@speedgriffon2504 Um, english, do you speak it?

[@speedgriffon2504]

@@cainster Kind of.

[@Arkonu]

It was always you, circles....

[@Leo-sv4ct]

its sesame streetaroph from final fantasy 7

[@rykiafredrick1320]

I think I went on an anemoic acid trip

[@davidmoore4019]

I wonder what language that is!!

[@MuzikJunky]

It’s the solfège syllables. All of Glass’s earlier works, before he started using actual lyrics, use them in sung parts. Peace.

[@joannawood7352]

oh my god this is what that fuckin Elevator Source thing was from????

[@speedgriffon2504]

Language.

[@raakone]

What is the Elevator Source thing?

[@corynielsen516]

Don't watch this if you're color blind.

[@laurenfernandez1163]

SESAME STREET 2001

[@benjamintu3214]

1:57

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0:42

[@liewkhwuntang]

💗💓💙🤎❣💋

[@chironrocket6340]

This music is fascinating, but for little kids it's fucking terrifyiing. All the enjoyment I might have had as an adult and professional musician in my 40's is completely eclipsed by the PTSD some of these short clips on Sesame Street and Electric Company left little kids like me with. What a scary time for little kids the 70's were.

[@speedgriffon2504]

Nonsense.

[@benjamintu3214]

1:22

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0:01

[@benjamintu3214]

1:57