Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Book Review – A Magical Behind the Scenes Insider’s Look

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Published on Saturday, 05 March 2022 15:23

Written by Janet Walker

The Unseen Photos of Street Gang, from Abrams Publishing, presents in this specialty book, the opportunity to introduce a new generation to that magical first season, when a phenomena was born on an empty soundstage.

Both the front inside cover and back inside cover are filled with a series of black and white mini-televisions snapshots of the life of Sesame Street. For those who grew up watching Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster, the images are a nostalgic look back at a simpler time.

Divided into chapter beginning with the very beginning, the Introduction written by author Trevor Crafts explains the moment the idea of creating a Sesame Street documentary and then finally the companion book, which goes beyond the documentary and preserves beautifully in a hardback cover never before seen images of the Street Gang and Sesame Street.

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Before the charm and delight of the pictures lure the reader away from the story behind the making of the book, Eli Attie, an Emmy award winning TV writer and producer and the son of Sesame Street commercial photographer David Attie, who just happened to capture the very first season of the sensational television hit, Sesame Street in images, provides the "Preface."

We find that his David Attie, was many things, and fortunately for this book, somewhat of a hoarder, with closets and boxes of never-before-seen pictures of Sesame Street life in that very sensational, although unsteady, and shaky, first season. Michael Davis, the author of "The Complete History of Sesame Street," and a well-known children's writer, pens the "Forward." Sonia Manzano, Sesame Street producer and actor on the show, writes the "Afterword."

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Street Gang is divided into five chapters, "Bring it to Life," "130 Episodes a Season," "An Eight-Foot-Tall Yellow Bird," "People in Your Neighborhood," "How to Get To Sesame Street." Each of these chapters bring to life that magical and enchanted first season through candid photographs pulled from the dusty closest of David Attie.

It is also a tribute to the enduring achievements of an ingenious group of artists, educators, and television pioneers who believed that the values of equality, education, and inclusion should not just be championed but also made available to all—a dream that Sesame Street has carried forward for more than 50 years.

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In The Unseen Photos of Street Gang, author and filmmaker Trevor Crafts, who was given unprecedented access to archival footage and photography, presents more than 150 of photographer David Attie's behind-the-scenes images of Jim Henson, Will Lee, Loretta Long, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and dozens of other pioneering puppeteers, animators, actors, and Sesame Street Muppets.

Crafts uses Attie's photos to expand upon the film's story of how show creator Joan Ganz Cooney, along with Sesame Workshop co-founder Lloyd Morrisett, director Jon Stone, and Muppet creator Jim Henson, took the values and goals of the civil rights movement and revolutionized children's television.

The Unseen Photos of Street Gang is an exclusive look into previously unpublished photographs from the first season of Sesame Street, featuring interviews with cast and crew. This official tie-in book to the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street supplements the film's exploration of the origins and legacy of the globally beloved children's series.

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The Unseen Photos of Street Gang, a heartfelt nostalgic look at the beginning of a global phenomenon, captured with all the magic, wonder and amazement that a child experiences during the awestruck first moments with Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, and the gang at Sesame Street. Own it, enjoy it.

Title: The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Author: Trevor Crafts.

SRP: U.S. $40.00 / CAN. $50.00.

Hardcover: 176 pages.

Size: 10 x 9" / 150 black-and-white and color photographs.

ISBN: 978-1-4197-5840-9.