A new book is a trove of unearthed images taken by photographer David Atties behind the scenes of Sesame Street's first season. heybonanos reports
Frank Oz and Jim Henson entertain a child between takes. Photo: David Attie/Courtesy Macrocosm Entertainment In the late 1960s, the photographer David Attie was getting regular work from a magazine called Amerika that few Americans ever saw. It was published by the Department of State, in Russian, and it was distributed in order to show off the good life to citizens of the Soviet Union.
Eli got some of the photos to Trevor Crafts, who was producing the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. “Eli sort of very carefully handed us this envelope full of slides, negatives, transparencies,” Crafts recalls, “that were of just amazing things. And we looked through them and knew what their value was.” A few of them made it into the movie, which premiered in theaters earlier this year and is now available on HBO Max.
“There is no glossiness in this work,” agrees Crafts when I mention this quality. The pictures are, he notes, nearly unique: “Sesame Workshop has, you know, tens of thousands of photos of Sesame Street at work, but the reason we wanted to use the David Attie photos was because it is a snapshot of this two-week period of time.” Very few behind-the-scenes photographs of the earliest years exist.
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