Classic Sesame Street - Spring In The Woods

[@starkravine]

I played the synths on this film. I am happy so many enjoyed the track. For the synth nerds out there, the ending trumpet like sound was performed on a Yamaha CS01 with a breath controller, as was the earlier flute like lead.

[@jaysonklein6018]

The synths were beautiful

[@jaysonklein6018]

Also, I'm no synth nerd, but I find synth music controlled by breath control apparati to be fascinating.

[@thejoshsings9280]

Well you did a great job! I commend you for your beautiful performance 😊 keep up the great work

[@wrathofpaulii]

I actually remember this clip.... from 30 years ago!

[@paraflamdragonruff9487]

Me too! Isnt that amazing! How cool is it we can find it all these years later!? Out of hundreds of hours of sesame street why do we remember some and not others!? Neato. So mostalgic i just love it. ❤ 😊

[@williamandrews1084]

This brings back childhood memories!! Sesame Street just doesn’t make the same good segments they used to anymore.

[@1world4me]

the voice is my daughter, the little girl in the film is the film maker's daughter. thanks for digging up the old fim. Take care

[@jtroll0724]

How old is your daughter now?

[@KrosanBeast315]

wow! amazing!

[@JillSatnam]

I'm 44. My mom has since passed away, and this comment means so much to see in this thread @@jtroll0724

[@paraflamdragonruff9487]

Wow, ive had your daughters voice in my head for decades! Wild right!? Shes has an adorable little voice. Kind of reminds me of that one actress that was in miracle on 34th and also matilda or miranda or something like that? Anyways good for you and your daughter!

[@corynielsen516]

I like it. It's like something out of National Geographic.

[@1world4me]

This filmed in Richmond Maine on Swan Island once known as Perkinsville. It is now state run with lean to camps for day and night trips

[@marcusarline7135]

Loving the music that I have been hearing since childhood.

[@starkravine]

I made the music. Thanks for the kind words.

[@marcusarline7135]

You're welcome! Wow, I need to hear it even more. Thank you for taking me back.

[@marcusarline7135]

This is my favorite

[@alvexok5523]

Sesame Street was one of my favorite shows in the early 1980s when I was a little kid. The other shows I remember loving and watching as a kid were Pinwheel, the Muppets, Looney tunes (and the other classic cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Popeye, The Flintstones, and the Pink Panther), Inspector Gadget, Superfriends, and the Smurfs

[@EnlightnMe48]

Makes me wonder what the kids(now grown adults) in all these old segments are doing today.

[@marcusarline1720]

My favorite clip that I grew up with.

[@machinegunangel]

This segment makes me feel so genuinely happy ❤️

[@Crichtonator1982]

Oh my goodness, I haven't seen this one in years! I love the animals, trees and flowers🌳especially the deer. 🎶The music is very calming💆😴. The little girl is such a cutie👼💖.

[@marcusarline1720]

Hillary Crichton I know right! I love the music too.

[@starkravine]

@@marcusarline1720 -thanks! I made that in my home studio in 1984.

[@MrSentinel83]

Man, there was another clip like this on Sesame Street with a father and son walking in the woods and it had synths too and they were so soothing, but for the life of me, I can't find the damn thing. I can hear the melody of the synths in my head as I'm typing this.

[@MrSentinel83]

@@j.tschouten3438 What is?

[@ericd.beckhamsr.2305]

OMG!!!! Man I remember this!!! I love the synthesizers on here!!!

[@starkravine]

I played the synths on this back in 1984. Thanks for the kind words.

[@ericd.beckhamsr.2305]

@@starkravine Did you really???

[@starkravine]

@@ericd.beckhamsr.2305 -Yes. In my 1984 home studio in Portland Maine.

[@ericd.beckhamsr.2305]

@@starkravine Oh ok, awesome man!!

[@onlyoneamong300]

Hi everyone! I've always loved adventures in the snow especially the spontaneous ones from Sesame Street! Anyone remember a 70's Sesame Street video of a man having a hard time walking on a ton of snow while taking the trash out of his house? I haven't seen it since the mid 70's. So, I would really appreciate if someone shares it with us. Remembering is living again, especially when it comes to vivid memories of your childhood! Thanks for sharing this video!

[@Blahbevava]

Wow this is so interesting seeing this again after so long. The way a young child's brain processes pure sensory input without yet defining what they've experienced in words and without much of any prior reference or context. Just pure sensory input with no bias. all forming the foundations of what reality is and becomes to each of us as we grow older. It makes me realize why experiences of early childhood are so powerful and influential. Everything is being seen and experienced for the first time and so it stands out a lot more in a very impressionistic way. Little kids notice and understand things in the universe in ways that we forget about as we grow older. As adults we become in many ways very limited by our hard wired nature and already long established constructs. Seeing this video again felt so strange because I remember seeing those flowers, those footsteps but not knowing or understanding fully what they were or what I was looking at. It was interpreted more like a pure emotional feeling, and or impression of something. Much like the way a good song makes me feel I can't even fully explain it in words and that I find very interesting.

[@Marbles471]

Thank you so much for writing that. I see things the same way, and you put it more succinctly than I could have.

[@alvexok5523]

Mr Extreme, very well thought out description of the truth. At a very young age, we do see life and the world around us with a sense of purity and awe, before our minds gradually get corrupted as we get older. At an early age, we see things for what they are, at a later age, we've gotten cross wired by so many different opinions, criticisms, arguments, and we begin to not be so sure about everything. Most topics under the sun have supplied us with many different viewpoints, debates, and contradictions. Yes, we learn and obtain more knowledge as we get older, but our hardwiring also grows more complex to where it becomes more difficult to take things at face value, even with things that really should contain a straight forward and simple truth, like nature and animals in the spring. Some things in life really are complex such as engineering, calculus, and physics. But some things are still very simple. But, our aging brain takes everything in complexity, whether it actually is complex or simple.

[@marcusarline2857]

Memories

[@befdoglover1]

Finally found it! I remember this beautiful music!

[@Garrettk41]

This is a very good film. It's a good way to show the process of Winter changing to Spring. Kudos to the child narrator's way of explaining how the leaves grow back on the trees. There is one mistake, however. None of those animals the girl mentions are actually hibernators. Hibernating means sleeping through Winter without waking up. Bears, skunks, and chipmunks don't do that. They do wake up now and then to get a bite to eat and all that. It's not hibernating if you wake up before Winter is over.

[@alvexok5523]

Garrettk41, I thought bears did hibernate all through the winter.

[@aekfuturewriter13]

Love this Winter to Spring sequel to the Fall to Winter video! This is so beautiful!

[@lisapartap1233]

The girls voice is so sweet

[@powerpup97]

I remember this segment very well. I always thought it was beautiful. Looking back at it now reminds me of those Disney attractions of the early 80's (particularly from EPCOT).

[@moatguy]

I remember this well.

[@marcusarline1720]

So do I

[@alvexok5523]

I remember this segment from when I was a kid in the 1980s, and I particularly remember the synthesizer playing when the bear came out. I also remember this segment being longer than 2 minutes, but as it's been studied, time seems longer when you're a kid. 2 minutes to an adult will seem like about 4 minutes to a 7 or 8 year old.

[@paraflamdragonruff9487]

OMG, im so grateful this is here! And looks like many others i cant wait to watch, but i remember some if these from being 3, 4, or 5 yrs old. Some just stuck with me for whatever reason. So nostalgic and amazing to get to see it again. There was another with a little boy in the forest i thought it was fall i remember dead leaves haf fell into a little stream. Ive craved seeing these for so long and i dont know why but im so glad theyre here. Thank you thank you!!!❤❤

[@bearcattony]

I always get the feeling this is part 2 of that video about the transition from fall to winter.

[@anniefinch6843]

I remembered watching this show on television and it's true some animals do hibernate.

[@jasonvancura2139]

The music reminds me of Keith Emerson's playing.

[@PrincessEli82]

It’s strange that the words are quiet in the winter. I bet squirrels go to sleep in the winter. Some birds that are from up north come here to North Carolina, where I live. I like spring, it’s my favorite season.

[@starkravine]

The director was Mary Lampson.

[@timothymclorin]

Sesame Street - Spring In The Woods season 16 (1984 - 1985)

[@jtomally9681]

@1world4me You are very welcome. It took me about four years to find this one. So was the little girl actually your daughter?

[@tenderpawsm473]

Where is the segment of the fall and winter with the nice music?

[@bearcattony00]

youtube must have kicked off the fall to winter clip that either prequels or sequels this clip.

[@Ian16545]

I tell you, George Page would be proud!

[@deanonessimo4052]

First seen in Episode 1966.

[@jtomally9681]

@bearcattony It might be. I don't know.

[@danielsteele4712]

It's the deciduous trees that loose their foliage in winter. The evergreens stay green year-round, hence the name.

[@38yofrmut]

I’ve always wondered where this was filmed? Maybe Acadia National Park? Upstate New York? Catskills? Wisconsin or Minnesota even? It has the same feeling as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books of living in the big woods of Wisconsin or something similar.

[@alvexok5523]

38yofrmut, I thought it was in Canada, most likely western Canada like Alberta or British Columbia due to the bears and the moose, and half the trees appearing to be pine trees. But, it could also be Montana, Idaho, or Washington state since bears and moose and many pine trees live there too

[@alvexok5523]

On second thought actually, the bear in the video looked to be a black bear and not a grizzly. I was thinking of grizzly bears, and they are only in western Canada, Idaho, Montana, and Washington. But, black bears also live in upstate New York, New England, eastern Canada, and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

[@hypermecha3040]

Do kids even know what "the woods" are these days? :P

[@RickeyHarris]

+Hypermecha they don't unfortunately :(

[@danielonn2002]

Did the dials move at the recording studio as the child speaks? If so he is a dials mover

[@tenderpawsm473]

Why do they keep pulling the fall to winter clip??

[@sheepwolf2004]

the deer are cute

[@Nickrj3]

What year was this? 1984?

[@Pocockable]

Also, what season is this sketch from?

[@vanni9283]

Know anything about the music that was used?

[@heatherferreira4225]

It's an APM track. I wish I remembered which. I have it, but it's buried so deep in my hard drive I'd have to find it by accident. If I do, I'll post its information here.

[@vanni9283]

Okay, thanks! :)

[@starkravine]

@@vanni9283 it’s not a stock track. I played this on synthesizers especially for the film.

[@starkravine]

@@heatherferreira4225 -I made this track for the film in my home studio in 1984. If it’s on APM, they never got it from me. Perhaps the filmmaker, though.

[@vanni9283]

@@starkravine I don't think I said anything about it being a stock track.

[@Pocockable]

Where was that sketch filmed?

[@dannyhibshman1424]

What animal is seen at 0:19?

[@jtomally9681]

Black Bear.