The stuff in the Internet Archive is an inconsistent mix. Videos vary in quality, resolution, length, language, and metadata completeness. If there's a particular episode you're looking for, it's...
The stuff in the Internet Archive is an inconsistent mix. Videos vary in quality, resolution, length, language, and metadata completeness. If there's a particular episode you're looking for, it's gonna take some effort to locate it in the big haystack. And of course those videos weren't uploaded with permission from Sesame Workshop.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a hugely awesome preservation effort and I don't care about the copyright stuff (just pointing out that it's legally gray, and therefore somewhat precarious). The significant things about the YouTube channels are that they're officially blessed, and high-quality.
Though I just looked through there and they suffer from similar metadata problems. The most recent full episode on the Classics channel, for example, is titled Elmo's New Doll | Sesame Street Classics Full Episode. Its description mentions that it's from season 18, but that's all you get. The episode posted before that one was from season 5, so they're just releasing these at random. You're even less likely to find what you're looking for here, if you have something specific in mind.
Makes me wonder what Sesame Workshop's internal episode vault looks like. Do they even possess all the episodes? Ideally, since Sesame Street episodes are compilations of many segments stitched together, each bit would be timestamped, tagged, and searchable. TBH even if they possess great HD transfers of every episode, getting all that extra meta annotated (and standardized) would be a tremendous effort with little ROI. That kind of thing is probably better left to the fan community. Metadata consistency will always be a problem though.
I can't say for certain they have literally every second of every episode in flawless quality, but I do recall that at one point HBO Max had episodes going back to the 70s broken up by season. I...
Do they even possess all the episodes?
I can't say for certain they have literally every second of every episode in flawless quality, but I do recall that at one point HBO Max had episodes going back to the 70s broken up by season. I remember because I went through a few of the early 90s episodes to show my kids what it was like when I was their age.
So while 100 eps is being presented as a fantastic thing for viewers, it's actually a huge step backwards from what was had on HBO Max a few years back. As you alluded to, I don't know that there's a ton of demand for the old seasons, as even I only watched a handful of episodes before returning to the more recent episodes. But still, this is worse than it once was.
I think this is explicitly about the legit uploads of Sesame Street to YouTube, not the random uploads by third parties. So I think there's a distinction being made there.
I think this is explicitly about the legit uploads of Sesame Street to YouTube, not the random uploads by third parties. So I think there's a distinction being made there.
Got it I misunderstood, they uploaded to TIA themselves? That's pretty great. I can see it says the creator is Sesame Workshop but I thought that was just giving credit, not the upload coming from...
Got it I misunderstood, they uploaded to TIA themselves? That's pretty great.
I can see it says the creator is Sesame Workshop but I thought that was just giving credit, not the upload coming from them!
I’m pretty sure your assessment was correct. The UI doesn’t make this super obvious, but these videos list Sesame Workshop as their “creator” which is distinct from their uploaders (who are just...
I’m pretty sure your assessment was correct. The UI doesn’t make this super obvious, but these videos list Sesame Workshop as their “creator” which is distinct from their uploaders (who are just random individuals). Many of these explicitly call out that they were scraped from YouTube by whoever uploaded them to TIA.
Two conflicting ideas in superposition. You are Schrodinger’s Fae. Definitely, and Definitely Not, until an observer takes a measurement and the wave function collapses.
Two conflicting ideas in superposition. You are Schrodinger’s Fae. Definitely, and Definitely Not, until an observer takes a measurement and the wave function collapses.
More than 100 full Sesame Street episodes from previous seasons are now available on YouTube and YouTube Kids across the Sesame Street and Sesame Street Classics channels. Sesame Street:...
More than 100 full Sesame Street episodes from previous seasons are now available on YouTube and YouTube Kids across the Sesame Street and Sesame Street Classics channels.
Feels like YouTube will at some point be where we watch everything we used to on Television networks. Next we know they’ll be the ones that own The Young and the Restless.
Feels like YouTube will at some point be where we watch everything we used to on Television networks. Next we know they’ll be the ones that own The Young and the Restless.
The stuff in the Internet Archive is an inconsistent mix. Videos vary in quality, resolution, length, language, and metadata completeness. If there's a particular episode you're looking for, it's gonna take some effort to locate it in the big haystack. And of course those videos weren't uploaded with permission from Sesame Workshop.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a hugely awesome preservation effort and I don't care about the copyright stuff (just pointing out that it's legally gray, and therefore somewhat precarious). The significant things about the YouTube channels are that they're officially blessed, and high-quality.
Though I just looked through there and they suffer from similar metadata problems. The most recent full episode on the Classics channel, for example, is titled
Elmo's New Doll | Sesame Street Classics Full Episode. Its description mentions that it's from season 18, but that's all you get. The episode posted before that one was from season 5, so they're just releasing these at random. You're even less likely to find what you're looking for here, if you have something specific in mind.Makes me wonder what Sesame Workshop's internal episode vault looks like. Do they even possess all the episodes? Ideally, since Sesame Street episodes are compilations of many segments stitched together, each bit would be timestamped, tagged, and searchable. TBH even if they possess great HD transfers of every episode, getting all that extra meta annotated (and standardized) would be a tremendous effort with little ROI. That kind of thing is probably better left to the fan community. Metadata consistency will always be a problem though.
I can't say for certain they have literally every second of every episode in flawless quality, but I do recall that at one point HBO Max had episodes going back to the 70s broken up by season. I remember because I went through a few of the early 90s episodes to show my kids what it was like when I was their age.
So while 100 eps is being presented as a fantastic thing for viewers, it's actually a huge step backwards from what was had on HBO Max a few years back. As you alluded to, I don't know that there's a ton of demand for the old seasons, as even I only watched a handful of episodes before returning to the more recent episodes. But still, this is worse than it once was.
I think this is explicitly about the legit uploads of Sesame Street to YouTube, not the random uploads by third parties. So I think there's a distinction being made there.
Got it I misunderstood, they uploaded to TIA themselves? That's pretty great.
I can see it says the creator is Sesame Workshop but I thought that was just giving credit, not the upload coming from them!
I’m pretty sure your assessment was correct. The UI doesn’t make this super obvious, but these videos list Sesame Workshop as their “creator” which is distinct from their uploaders (who are just random individuals). Many of these explicitly call out that they were scraped from YouTube by whoever uploaded them to TIA.
Ok well, I'll just go back to my corner as I am now spinning in place ¯\_ʘ‿ʘ_/¯
Two conflicting ideas in superposition. You are Schrodinger’s Fae. Definitely, and Definitely Not, until an observer takes a measurement and the wave function collapses.
Well I know my next username now.
More than 100 full Sesame Street episodes from previous seasons are now available on YouTube and YouTube Kids across the Sesame Street and Sesame Street Classics channels.
Sesame Street:
https://www.youtube.com/sesamestreet
Sesame Street Classics:
https://www.youtube.com/@SesameStreetClassics
Feels like YouTube will at some point be where we watch everything we used to on Television networks. Next we know they’ll be the ones that own The Young and the Restless.