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    I-Beam Skit

    For the new members, I was wondering who was scared by/fascinated by this skit. It was a real-life clip of a red-hot I-beam being made in a steel mill with scary music...Came out it 1977 or so. I always ran from the TV when this would come on.. my parents would just laugh at me :D
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    Mahna-mahna in Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper commercial

    Has anyone seen this yet?? The original Mahna-Mahna song is used in this new tv commercial--Too Cute!!!! :p
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    Big Bird and Cuban Singer Lady

    Does anyone remember a skit form the late 80's-early 90's about Big Bird and an older, Cuban woman in a yellow floral print dress with very long fingernails (she looked almost african-american) and she sings a song to him in her native language about hummingbirds? She starts out by saying...
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    I-beam

    For the new people: I just gotta ask- who was terrified of the real-life segment, "I-beam", aka the red-hot "I", besides myself? :eek:
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    Classic Clips DVD-R

    This message is to the new members of the forum or those who may have missed my post several months ago: I have a special-made DVD from Sesame Workshop that I had made for me(yes they do this- for $7 per segment!), with my favorite live-action segments from the late 70's and early 80's...
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    Red-Hot "I"

    For the new members here, I'm just curious if anyone else was scarred by/obsessed with the real-life "Red-hot "I"" or "I-beam" film from the late 70s that was shown thru the mid-90's. I'm looking for any info on that film. I had Sesame Workshop burn that film to dvd for me a few months ago...
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    Classic clips DVD

    I have a dvd from Sesame Workshop with the following 70's non-animated clips: Red Hot "I" (2x) Brothers Song (English/Spanish) Car Wash Tortilla Contest (English/Spanish) I was wondering if anyone on here can put a link to this clips on this forum if I send them a burn of this...
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    R-car

    another funky animation bit featuring an african american character from the same time period as the other two previously mentioned: a black lady with a huge afro is sitting in vw beetle-type car trying to start the engine without success. she gets out of the car, slams the door, and lifts...
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    Real-life rhythm film

    ok does anyone else remember this sketch from the late 70's-very early 80's or am i just crazy? Here is my best description: A black man of jamaican or hatian decent walks along the ocean shore with a couple of young kids. He tells them "There is rhythym all around us......the ocean has...
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    Who remembers these?

    Who remembers these "real-life" films from the late 70's- early 80's on SS: One about kids playing jacks and using a horseshoe magnet to get a fallen jack back The one where a hispanic mother and daughter go to a market to buy things for the chicken soup they make. At the end of the film...
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