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| − | The '''Number Three Ball Film''' is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' film from [[1970]] with an electronic, carnival-like soundtrack that follows a small, red ball as it rolls throughout a toy roller coaster. The ball makes its way throughout a number of mechanical devices that help to propel it through the track. When it reaches the end, it drops into a metal box. In one version of the film, the ball is ground up into a fine powder. In another version, it seems to turn into three cherries that are plopped down onto three sundaes that roll by on a conveyor belt. A little girl ([[Henson Kids Cameos|played]] by [[Heather Henson]]) eats one of them. The latter version is the only one that has been released on video. |
+ | The '''Number Three Ball Film''' is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' film from [[1970]] with an electronic, carnival-like soundtrack that follows a small, red ball as it rolls throughout a toy roller coaster. The ball makes its way throughout a number of mechanical devices that help to propel it through the track. When it reaches the end, it drops into a metal box. In one version of the film, the ball is ground up into a fine powder. In another version (where the different ending was filmed in 1974), it seems to turn into three cherries that are plopped down onto three sundaes that roll by on a conveyor belt. A little girl ([[Henson Kids Cameos|played]] by [[Heather Henson]]) eats one of them. The latter version is the only one that has been released on video. |
[[Frank Oz]] recalls the production of the film in an interview with Kenneth Plume for IGN FilmForce: {{quote|The only <nowiki>[directing]</nowiki> I ever did myself <nowiki>[</nowiki>on ''Sesame Street''<nowiki>]</nowiki> was a bizarre thing with this ball for the number 3 where I built an entire kind of bizarre wire sculpture and shot it over many months. Looking back on it, I'm thinking "My God, why the f*** was I doing all of that work?" But it was fun to do. I wouldn't call that directing. I was in a gallery doing wire sculpture and one of my pieces sold, so that's where that came from. It was something where I could control my own little world, but it wasn't directing. It was creating and then just kind of calling the shots.<ref>[http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/035/035842p1.html IGN FilmForce - Interview with Frank Oz]</ref>}} In addition to direxting and building the wire sculpture, Frank Oz sequenced the film by drawing on note cards. [[Jim Henson]] produced the film and also drew on some of the cards.<ref>[[Karen Falk]], personal correspondence, see talk page</ref> |
[[Frank Oz]] recalls the production of the film in an interview with Kenneth Plume for IGN FilmForce: {{quote|The only <nowiki>[directing]</nowiki> I ever did myself <nowiki>[</nowiki>on ''Sesame Street''<nowiki>]</nowiki> was a bizarre thing with this ball for the number 3 where I built an entire kind of bizarre wire sculpture and shot it over many months. Looking back on it, I'm thinking "My God, why the f*** was I doing all of that work?" But it was fun to do. I wouldn't call that directing. I was in a gallery doing wire sculpture and one of my pieces sold, so that's where that came from. It was something where I could control my own little world, but it wasn't directing. It was creating and then just kind of calling the shots.<ref>[http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/035/035842p1.html IGN FilmForce - Interview with Frank Oz]</ref>}} In addition to direxting and building the wire sculpture, Frank Oz sequenced the film by drawing on note cards. [[Jim Henson]] produced the film and also drew on some of the cards.<ref>[[Karen Falk]], personal correspondence, see talk page</ref> |
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| Written by | Keith Vernon Textor Jim Henson |
| Publisher | Scott Textor Music Publishing, Inc. |
The Number Three Ball Film is a Sesame Street film from 1970 with an electronic, carnival-like soundtrack that follows a small, red ball as it rolls throughout a toy roller coaster. The ball makes its way throughout a number of mechanical devices that help to propel it through the track. When it reaches the end, it drops into a metal box. In one version of the film, the ball is ground up into a fine powder. In another version (where the different ending was filmed in 1974), it seems to turn into three cherries that are plopped down onto three sundaes that roll by on a conveyor belt. A little girl (played by Heather Henson) eats one of them. The latter version is the only one that has been released on video.
Frank Oz recalls the production of the film in an interview with Kenneth Plume for IGN FilmForce:
In addition to direxting and building the wire sculpture, Frank Oz sequenced the film by drawing on note cards. Jim Henson produced the film and also drew on some of the cards.[2]
The film's title varies from several sources. ASCAP catalogues the music as "No.3 Ball Powder," while the Learning About Numbers DVD chapter stop identifies it as "Rollercoaster 1,2,3." Old School: Volume 2 refers to it as "Henson Ball High Wire #3." When portions of the original set piece were on display at The Muppets Take Maryland exhibit (as seen in an episode of National Arts, the placard described it as the "Number Three Ball Film."
Releases
- Video
- Learning About Numbers
- Old School: Volume 2 (as a Season 6 Classic Cut)
- Online
- The Sesame Street Podcast (powder version, edited with new voice-overs)
- Sesamestreet.org (cherry version) Template:SSvideo
- Other
- Numbers - A clip of the ball going through three doors
Sources
- ↑ IGN FilmForce - Interview with Frank Oz
- ↑ Karen Falk, personal correspondence, see talk page