Rare "Cracks" animation from 1970's Sesame Street

[Cookie3001]

Why do I feel like I've heard an instrumental version of this...

I John Armonds podcast he tried to reconstruct the music from this segment

 

[Cookie3001]

I noticed that the story behind this short is very similar to the Pinwheel short Clockman except the Clockman on YouTube is on the official AAA Studios channel so it´s not likely that anything will happen to it. The copy Cracks on the other hand is an illegal copy so something might happen to it

 

[Cookie3001]

When the spanish copy was uncovered I had no idea it was from an official video release

That's amazing, I admit for a while I thought that it was fake or from some other obscure cartoon since there was no info about it on Muppet Wiki but I think we have just enough proof

I also wondered for a while if this was originally from a foreign dub of Sesame Street since the little girls lipsync was kind of off

 

[minor muppetz]

That's an interesting theory from the podcast where it might have been banned because people might think of crack, the drug. Crack Master does sound like a good name for a drug dealer/user, and many of us used to think it was called "Crack Monster", my first thought was a monster obsessed with crack like Cookie Monster is obsessed with cookies (though I knew they wouldn't do that on Sesame Street).

So weird that apparently Sesame Workshop doesn't have much information on who animated it. I wonder if that's keeping it from an official release (because it'd be hard to find out who to send residuals to).

 

[Cookie3001]

That's an interesting theory from the podcast where it might have been banned because people might think of crack, the drug. Crack Master does sound like a good name for a drug dealer/user, and many of us used to think it was called "Crack Monster", my first thought was a monster obsessed with crack like Cookie Monster is obsessed with cookies (though I knew they wouldn't do that on Sesame Street).

So weird that apparently Sesame Workshop doesn't have much information on who animated it. I wonder if that's keeping it from an official release (because it'd be hard to find out who to send residuals to).

I don't think Sesame Workshop has any information about cracks, every page on Muppet Wiki with info about this short does not exist, there is no page for Episode 979 or a page for the Plaza Sesamo VHS that featured the clip

 

[PumpkinJ]

I don't think Sesame Workshop has any information about cracks, every page on Muppet Wiki with info about this short does not exist, there is no page for Episode 979 or a page for the Plaza Sesamo VHS that featured the clip

You're absolutely right. On the page for Episode 818, now as a complete guide via a trusted source, all it says beneath the description of the clip is "vocals: Dorothy Moskowitz".

 

[Cookie3001]

You're absolutely right. On the page for Episode 818, now as a complete guide via a trusted source, all it says beneath the description of the clip is "vocals: Dorothy Moskowitz".

I see, well there is one thing we know about the clip now, its not much but its a start. I looked on Muppet Wiki and I could not find the page

 

[Blue Frackle]

I don't think Sesame Workshop has any information about cracks, every page on Muppet Wiki with info about this short does not exist, there is no page for Episode 979 or a page for the Plaza Sesamo VHS that featured the clip

I actually tried to make an article for Cracks itself on Muppet Wiki and they immediately shut me down within seconds. They're in on it too.

 

[Cookie3001]

I actually tried to make an article for Cracks itself on Muppet Wiki and they immediately shut me down within seconds. They're in on it too.

I see, none of the Wiki people like @Oscarfan have been on this thread (as far as I know), I don't know what it is about this clip that is so bad, I know it's kinda dark and scary but I don't understand why they are blocking all info about the clips existence

 

[Blue Frackle]

I see, none of the Wiki people like @Oscarfan have been on this thread (as far as I know), I don't know what it is about this clip that is so bad, I know it's kinda dark and scary but I don't understand why they are blocking all info about the clips existence

I was half joking, half serious about them being "in on it", but the article I wrote mentioned the lore it's famous for and I understand Muppet Wiki finding that useless, so their standpoint is it's too obscure and there isn't enough known about it to warrant an article.