Thanks for watching the video! This is definitely one of the strangest and most famous pieces of lost media I’ve covered on this channel. It’s really needs an entire documentary dedicated to it. I’ll probably have one more video by the end of 2019. Heading into 2020, lots of changes will be made. The major one being that I will primarily be doing documentaries instead of lists. Maybe an occasional one here and there, especially for the lost media updates videos, but I’m hoping to do mostly documentaries from now on. The topics will be darker (thanks COPPA!) and center around television/movies and online mysteries. I feel a lot more proud of this work rather than the list videos, and I think the majority of you guys like the documentaries more. They certainly garner way more likes. Anyways, those are my plans. I really hope you guys enjoy this one, and I’ll see you next time!
Reasons everyone thinks the short was kept hidden: Weirdness People thought it was freaky It's Cursed Footage If you watch it, you need to pass it on or in 7 days Big Bird will crawl out of your TV set and sing to you Actual reasons it was kept hidden: Didn't want to be famous for coining the term Crack Monkey
🤣🤣🤣 That’s gotta be it. I wanted to say “what terrible timing,” but there couldn’t be “good timing” for an addiction epidemic. 😕😔 Besides that the monster ended up being a little too scary for the kids...
Hello! You appear to have misused the word "IRONIC"! Situational irony points to something unexpected or opposite of what is expected. Verbal irony means saying the opposite of what you mean (E.G. Sarcasm). Dramatic irony means that the audience knows something the characters don't! It's not ironic that what she said came true in its own way, but it's certainly cool!
There is something oddly hypnotic about how it's half-spoken and half-sung, with some of the lines rhyming in an odd pattern. I can kinda see why it would stick with people so much, especially if it just disappeared like that
@Caramel Johnson I remember watching the Trapdoor as a kid. Never disappeared but no more or less creepy than Cracks, so I think you're right. I expected something worse with all this kerfuffle.
Maybe the title is something after all, you have a vivid memory you can not recall, relatively abstract, something by the name of Crack Master. Then this comes from the same peculiar names like *_"Master/Crazy Hand."_*
I think the short is really beautiful and tells a story of life as a child in poverty, and how your imagination can help keep you entertained. The fact that it started out so obscure is what made it so creepy to so many people I think.
also 'he destroyed himself trying to be mean' is an interesting message... i can imagine they tried to take the childrens fear away of their fantasy running wild in their room, in the dark/in cracks/in patterns etc. (you know when you were little and that pile of clothing suddenly looked like a scary monster?) too bad it backfired badly lol
It’s a short about how kids in poverty will amuse themselves on rainy day, but whilst doing so they are listening to the yelling from the other side of the wall. Could be the neighbors or their family. Domestic violence causes cracks & is the Master that destroys itself from trying to be angry. Then the kid tells their imagination good bye & thanks for the ride. I’m gonna go play outside now. I’ll see you again. Another time when I have to escape the captivity & use the cracks in the walls as friends. Just so I can make since of the reality I live within. I get it!! Way too much!
Noha Thanks. The only reason I was able to make the analysis is because I have been in this situation. You make friends with the wall paper, the cracks, & create a story in your mind that makes since. Eventually you learn to just go play outside in the rain because the acoustics are better. No angry yelling. Just rain drops and pavement.
Princess Maxine a minuet difference that is essentially unnecessary to explain. Sense vs. since is a mere spelling different. Technically you can’t since anything with out your senses so I don’t bother differing the spelling. It makes more sense 👍
I remember seeing this, because afterwards i looked for faces and things in the walls. I found a monster in the concrete wall of my basement and refused to go down there alone after that. How bizarre to see it 40 years later.
@@tiecoonracoon3630 Pretty crazy how vast the void of oblivion is, isn't it? Every day something is being lost and forgotten, many of these things never to be recovered again. It's a constant struggle of humanity just trying to remember everything we create! Personally I have an old Beyblade Plug & play console from the early 2000s that's now pretty obscure. Who knows what else other people have from just the 2000s that's on the verge of being lost?
I watched it in the late 90s and it definitely made me go and try to find weird shapes on cracks and stains on the walls. It was a conscious thing too like everytime i found a strange shape i remembered this short, pretty crazy.
I actually really like the idea of a young girl making imaginary adventures with cracks in the wall, it's something I feel underprivileged kids could relate too. I totally get why theyd pull it after the Crack Cocaine epidemic though.
I like the idea too of using cracks on the wall. I used to do that in school when I was forced to face the wall while standing all day. Except I used the bumps in the paint to draw pictures like stars.
Hilariously, pretty much what I said at the time when dycaite shared that note on a chat board. I mean, not only did he wind up unearthing a lost Sesame Street cartoon, but he also got original, personalized artwork from someone in the animation industry. Gee, I hope he got it framed.
PLEASE READ FOR A SIMPLE EXPLANATION: I went to art school and was friends with Big Bird's son and daughter (twins). They grew up on the Sesame Street set. The crack monster video was removed and put in storage because the makers didn't realize the negative connotations of the language "The Crack Monkey". Once they realized it. They immediately stopped airing the clip. This was a simple mistake. The people involved immediately regretted and took action to resolve it. The creatives didn't want to destroy it because they don't believe in burning the past, but the lawyers don't want it "out there" because it was such a stupid blunder. The reason the library will "never release" it AND why you didn't get a second response is simply that they are under a gag order, so cannot legally say anything not supplied by the makers of the vid.
Yeah, I thought the names “crack monkey” and “crack camel” were funny because just like they said in the video, now it’s associated with drugs. I realized crack wasn’t really a street name for drugs when the video was aired so it makes sense why they had no problem releasing it when they did. At the same time, I don’t understand why they would make this a short on a children’s show. It was clearly made to be creepy even if there was no story behind it. The animation, the narrator singing/speaking at the same time and then the music in the background. Im 24 right now and the video made me feel uncomfortable I can’t imagine how I would’ve felt if I was 3 years old watching this lol. It just has a super unnerving and uncanny energy.
sesame street used to have a ton of weird stuff, so this doesnt feel that out there to me. given that the show was originally created to fill educational gaps and appeal to poor, lower-class kids, the idea of a short playing around with cracks in the wall and ultimately deconstructing the idea of a scary monster kids might see in the cracks in the dark makes perfect sense to me.
@Humphrey Hogan my job isn't to enlighten you on why I find a story creepy or not. Why don't you get a life and stop replying to every passing comment you see that doesn't fall in line with your own beliefs. Don't talk to me.
Imagine the shows we watch today that’s going to be someone’s scary lost media content one day lol.. that being said before y’all start freaking out in 2075 Mr Meaty was a real show😭
i read it like "george" because i have a friend named Jorge and we always say his name like "george" because substitute teachers would always pronounce it wrong and it just became his nickname 😂
Not only that, but I think the idea of kids playing with plaster and paint could influence kids to eat or mess with lead paint which is something that was common not too long ago, especially in poor city areas.
Your probably one of if not the best youtuber documenting these lost media stories. Your probably a big reason why most of the ones that get found are even found in the first place.
Check out "kenny lauderdale" he once searched for a super obscure lost anime that didn't even have a google search result Edit: here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3KS5YhZASL4.html
It doesn't make any sense. Why do it? What did they get out of it, especially after warning people not to show anyone else (although they must have known they would)?
It's crazy to think that a good chunk of lost media is just sitting in a warehouse or archive somewhere, in some cases that could be easily accessed by someone and shared again to the public
It’s clear why this short is shrouded in secrecy : it’s too real. It’s about a young girl suffering the misery & desperation of poverty. Her only escape from reality is her imagination. Even though the villian destroys itself from hate, in reality she’s still in that decrepit room. It’s dark as f.
You're absolutely correct. It scared children because of the dim visuals, but it frightens adults because they can draw some rather dark conclusions about the situation being portrayed. However, the short ends with the girl remarking that the rain has stopped outside... that might be a metaphor for better times coming her way. She's able to leave that decrepit room because there is finally light and warmth beyond it, and so her situation isn't one of complete despair. For both children and adults, the final lesson is that there's hope.
Mad Maverick I think you’re reading too much into it. The segment strikes me as being about making the best with what you have - even if all you have is a barren room, a child can still have fantastic adventures with nothing but the cracks on the wall.
I think it's really cute. It's raining outside, if anything this place is her refuge and its just boring, so she made a story about her walls. I did that as a kid all the time. I had this peeling bit of wallpaper in my room and I imagined ripping it all off one day and finding something magical that they covered up with paper. I also had a tree branch that scraped the side of my house, which was objectively unsettling but I got so used to it that it became comforting. I think the creepiest part is that it's so poorly animated
Imagine sending an untraceable fax to someone, getting a DVD copy of an obscure short from the 70s, going all the way to their house just to deliver it and warning them to never show it to anyone else only to then send it to another person through email
i feel like the first guy who made the documentary was lying about the circumstances he got it in, i feel like he reached out, got the rejection letter than got emailed it too, then probably burned it to a dvd to make it seem more spooky so he could sell his fucking documentary as some kinda scary spooky mystery, wouldve worked great if the other guy didnt go and ask too, get the same response and video and actually posted it, instead of creating a bullshit contract etc.
"Grandma! Grandma!" "Yes, darling?" "You got famous online!" "Oh yeah, you heard about that? "Yes! Oh, also apparently you were on Sesame Street?" "Yep, I did one of the skits." "Can you tell me that story again Granny?" "Sure, sit down right next to me." And so that night was filled with warmth, singing and laughing.
"Cracks" isn't as elusive as this video leads one to believe. I just watched it again and as an adult gained a much deeper understanding. It's about finding beauty in poverty. The writers did a wonderful job and this short cartoon.
@@HyLion He's not talking about the video itself, he's talking about the meaning behind it being elusive. I think it was pretty obvious myself, but not a lot of people seem to understand what the video was about.
@@ninja_tony it was seen by a bunch of young children, likely only a single time, like 40 years ago. Of *course* the meaning wasn't obvious to those that remembered it.
@@jaceybella1267 it’s not really that hard to figure out if you take a minute to think about it. I first heard about it from Jorge’s Lost Media Iceberg video and it pretty immediately registered what the theme was just with his vague explanation. Sesame Street usually doesn’t do things purely for entertainment value, and especially not for the sake of being creepy. I think people just want to find things that aren’t there, you see it a lot in this corner of the internet.
Being a child in the 70s and 80s and having watched Sesame Street, i can confirm that Sesame Street during those years had some REALLY weird segments. Many of which i can recall right now after not seeing them for nearly 40 years.
A lot of TV in general did back then, even the Disney Channel. They used to show the Canadian cartoon The Raccoons (as well as other productions which I only learned years later were also Canadian, like The Edison Twins and Danger Bay), as well as other rather offbeat non-Disney productions like The Phantom Tollbooth, The Point (which was actually inspired by Harry Nilsson having an acid trip), and Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (best known for a terrifying sequence featuring an amorphous monster made of taffy called The Greedy).
"A cartroon about a home with broken walls could have been seen as insensitive." I disagree. The cartoon would have told kids that a cracked wall was common & nothing to be embarrassed about. (You should see what the foundation settling did to my wall in the office).
I also thought it was something kids could relate to; they probably saw shapes in the patterns of cracks on the walls all the time. I remember seeing monsters and faces in the wood grain of the kitchen cabinets at a house I lived in when I was little...to know other people saw them too would have been comforting.
PeanutButterZombie00 Yeah, when I was younger I would see faces and figures in textures like on carpets and tables and stuff. I think I still do sometimes.
Also, Sesame Street was originally targeted for children in low-income, inner-city homes. That's probably what a lot of those kids' houses looked like.
@@PeanutButterZombie00 pareidolia turning shapes into faces its something our brain automatically does. I always saw stuff in the wood grain the bathroom door too when I was a kid.
You oughta check out The United States of America. Only made one record in '68, one of the first rock bands to make electronics a core component of their sound. As mentioned, she was in the group.
I love how the narrations make a 37 year old man searching desperately for a sesame street clip sound like a loose cannon cop that plays by his own rules.
It always makes me happy to know that there’s such dedicated groups of people out there obsessed with this one weird thing they saw when they were a kid 30 years ago, so they form task forces to track down the original projects and the people associated with them. I’m so glad that there’s people dedicated to preserving and finding lost media, even if it’s just to give themselves closure
I totally thought the short didn't exist going in, I thought it was so weird that he remembered so much dialogue seemingly word for word. Guess this dude has a sick memory wow.
I still carry a memory from when I was 7 months old. The thing about keeping a memory alive is that you have to keep re-remembering it as the years pass. That act makes dormant neuron pathways get refreshed with newer pathways. I had a dream when I was eight that freaked me out so much, it still haunts me to this day.
Surprisingly, Sesame Street does have creepy moments. There was this one episode involving a witch or something, and it got banned for being " too scary for children ". There was another moment where this rubber band face was showing kids how to count to 10, seems normal enough, but the appearance of the face was so unsettling for some reason.
I find it weirdly unsettling and off...it feels very stilted. I love its message and how it attempts to connect to children in the conditions that girl is in, but the background music would have terrified me as a kid
At the beginning I thought I remembered this short. When the real short played the memories of it snapped back vividly. I was sitting on the living room floor in front of the big console tv with my favorite blanket drinking a glass of milk while my grandmother was crocheting in the rocking chair behind me. I remember being mesmerised by it. Though it didn't scare me. I really liked it. It was one of my favorites.
Isn’t this the second story where someone is mysteriously given lost media and is told not to share it whatsoever? then months/years later it’s found anyway? I dunno, this kind of thing kinda irks me. What’s the point in trying to be super mysterious and shady about something like this when it’ll eventually turn up?
Honestly I'd imagine that'd be because whoever leaked it was an employee and would be avoiding trying to be fired for it, at least that would be my guess.
this wasnt creepy it had a good moral. being mean for no reason will distroy you
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@That guy It does destroy them. Slowly and in a haze of moral decay. They will feel it later on and realise what kind of monster they had become. By time it will be too late for them to fix their mistakes and a fate worse than death falls upon them.
I'm Joe Rampino Well there are missing episodes in sesame street that I couldn't count how many are lost or found in some language in other country but taking down by youtube
the WORST part of this story is the anonymous fax to his workplace, and the fact that the dvd was dropped personally in his mailbox. this man broke a promise to someone who doxxed him and ill never get over it
I was expecting something horrific to come to light, but when I saw the short, the narrator’s voice and sweet animation gave me such a warm and nostalgic feeling. It’s a beautiful little short about finding fun and beauty in the ugliness around you. Such a shame that it had to be put away because of its unintended profiling, but I am glad it was found.
I was scared of a movie where a kid BEFRIENDS a CUTE monster in his closet. I knew it wasn't supposed to be scary but I was so terrified I cried. So, yeah, sometimes our dumb kid brains can get REALLY dumb.
Kids shows are full of low-skill creations. So nothing looks quite right. So everything falls into the uncanny valley: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Man if I had a nickel for every time an old cartoon short about a child being plucked from their bedroom by a strange creature in their wall went missing, I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
I still can't find this religious cartoon that freaked me out as a kid. Where a poor family ask their queen for help with their farm. The queen give them a ox and the cartoon reveals the queen is a hairy demon.( a jackal i think) Later on that night. She seek on the farm trying to eat them but the family dog attacks her. She kills the dog and runs away. Because it woke the family up. The mother believes its the queen. The father doesn't believe her. The next day the queen brings the family food or something because she "heard about what happened to the dog" the father eats the mother and kids don't. The mother and kids skip town. The man stays and queen in demon form seeks in and eats him.
LastLvLBoss I think I had a vhs copy of it about a year ago but it go left behind when we moved. It was a bunch of the I know I had at least five of them on vhs.
I’ve listened to some of the music from Dorothy’s band (The United States of America), and it’s actually pretty good. There’s definitely some quality psychedelic rock tunes from the one album that the band released.
I remember watching this in Latino Spanish, I'm from El Salvador and here's a channel that used to broadcast only old episodes of seasame street from the 80's and 70's (mainly because the channel was too poor to pay for newer episodes lol)
I also remember it!!! I watched it in the mexican version (Plaza Sésamo), back in the 90's. Something snap on my head when I saw the camel!!! But I can't remember the song. Edit: Lo encontré en español. Spanish version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vSqDV4h-prY.html
Richard Galvan Back in the early years Sesame Street had a bunch of these vaguely creepy and mysterious shorts on their episodes. Sesame Street in the 60s and 70s was a lot more interesting and experimental than it is today.
When it comes to Sesame Street's "missing" piece, for me personally, it's of one of those short song segments, the beginning goes _"my friend.. the animal"_ and the video shows children with farm animals, kind of like a petting zoo. Seems like it was made in the late 70s/early 80s, as 1 of the children was wearing that multicolor horizontal striped turtleneck with a semi bellbottom denim. It's a happy song, and unlike the guy who searched for closure of his somewhat "traumatic" experience, I wish to see and hear it again to reconnect with my childhood. Been trying to find it, but to no avail. If anyone has info, it'll be awesome 😙😙
I remember a clip of Elmo's World where Dorothy goes missing so Elmo goes inside this door that they never go into, just usually things come out of. Elmo thought Dorothy might have gone in there. It's all foggy and Elmo warns the viewer that they can't stay for too long or else they'll be trapped. That's all I remember.
