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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Marilyn Agrelo. Based on the non-fiction book Street Gang by Michael Davis, the film chronicles the development and airing of the children's television program Sesame Street , featuring interviews with series creators Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett ...
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street: Directed by Marilyn Agrelo. With Frank Biondo, Linda Bove, Fran Brill, Northern Calloway. Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children's series in TV history.
- (1.4K)
- Documentary, Family, History
- Marilyn Agrelo
- 2021-04-23
Director: Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. Marilyn Agrelo is known for Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021), Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) and An Invisible Sign (2010).
- Director, Producer, Writer
- 3 min
- No Ordinary Kids Show
- TV Show Aimed For 'Radical Change'
- Changing with The Times
These days, Jim Henson's name is associated with creating some of our best-loved children's characters. But prior to joining Sesame Street, Henson really had no interest in going into children's programming. In the 1960s, Henson was performing with his Muppets characters on late-night talk shows. He was also directing experimental short films and T...
Agrelo says the creators of Sesame Street came from the era of the civil rights movement. "They were very influenced by it, particularly Joan Ganz Cooney, who was the initial creator of the show, and they really wanted to make a radical change in society," Agrelo says. In the 1960s, children in America's inner cities faced significant disadvantages...
Sesame Street was very much a product of its time, Agrelo says, and times have changed. "I think things have gotten a bit more careful," she says. "I think that the humour that was employed in Sesame Street was very cutting edge … there was also a lot of social commentary in that humour." But Sesame Street can still cause controversy. Last year Big...
Street Gang will take us inside the minds and hearts of the Sesame Street creators to help us understand not only how they produced this groundbreaking show, but also what it was like to be...
- (100)
- Marilyn Agrelo
- PG
- Buffalo 8 Productions
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, originally titled simply Street Gang, is a Sesame Street documentary based on the book of the same name by Michael Davis. Much like the book, the documentary focuses on the creation of the Children's Television Workshop and the development of Sesame...
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is directed by Marilyn Agrelo; produced by Trevor Crafts, Ellen Scherer Crafts, and Lisa Diamond; executive produced by Brian O’Shea, Nat McCormick, Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Mark Myers, and Heather Kenyon; co-executive produced by Michael Davis; edited by Ben Gold. Watch Street Gang: How We Got ...
