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‘Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street’ Entertainingly Dissects the Creation of a Classic [Sundance Review]

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The most important (and frankly, most difficult) achievement of Marilyn Agrelo’s documentary “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is to take us back to a world in which “Sesame Street” didn’t exist – an all but impossible task anymore, because it represented such a seismic shift in children’s entertainment.

But in the late 1960s, it was sort of inconceivable that a kids’ show wouldn’t talk down to its audience; the various “Howdy Doody” and “Bozo the Clown” iterations that filled the airwaves were mostly televised babysitters and/or salesmen.

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