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On to the next gig.
(Sure, sure,The Sopranos.But did it teach anybody to read?)
And we looked through them and knew what their value was.
But, being an actual film, its largely built out of interviews and motion-picture footage.
And if you are even remotely of 1970sSesame Streetage, you will want to linger over them.
(Oscar the Grouch, for this first season, was orange rather than green.)
Caroll Spinney, as Big Bird, rehearses with Loretta Long, who played Susan.
Spinney and young actors on the set.
Muppet designer Caroly Wilcox works with puppeteers Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Daniel Seagren.
Oscar the Grouch was orange before he turned green.
Seagren, Hensen, and Oz (as well as Ernie and Bert).
Performing a sketch about the Hunt for Happiness.
Longtime cast member Bob McGrath.
Attie experimented with color-tinting some of the backstage images.
Spinney, Long, and Matt Robinson, who originated the role of Gordon.
Literally, because virtually all the Muppeteers have long hippie hair.
There is no glossiness in this work, agrees Craftswhen I mention this quality.
Very few behind-the-scenes photographs of the earliest years exist.
They werent working for posterity yet.
I have a contact sheet of him in Mr. Hoopers store, Eli says.
Heres what that says to me, Eli Attie says when I ask him about it.
And my brothers stories kind of say the same thing: There was a looseness to it.
There was an informality and Henson and Oz were gonna entertain kids in between their 18-hour workday.
A kind of a flow, a little bit lets put on a show.
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