Sand Alphabet

Sand Alphabet is a stop-frame animated series of inserts appearing regularly on Sesame Street, one for each letter of the alphabet and with occasional variants. Eliot Noyes, Jr. created the films by manipulating grains of sand against a front or backlighted glass animation stand. Bluegrass music accompanied the letters (featured in both capital and lowercase, read by a male voice and a child's voice respectively) and occasional minimal sand figures or props were featured.

The series began airing in Season 5 and continued to air until Season 32.

A
(First: Episode 0628)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

B
(First: Episode 0627)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

C
(First: Episode 0625)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

D
(First: Episode 0640)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

E
(First: Episode 0642)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

F
(First: Episode 0629)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

G
(First: Episode 0643)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

H
(First: Episode 0630)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

I
(First: Episode 0619)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

J
(First: Episode 0631)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

K
(First: Episode 0645)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

L
(First: Episode 0632)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

M
(First: Episode 0620)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

N
(First: Episode 0633)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

O
(First: Episode 0621)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

P
(First: Episode 0634)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Q
(First: Episode 0623)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

R
(First: Episode 0635)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

S
(First: Episode 0622)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

T
(First: Episode 0636)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

U
(First: Episode 0624)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

V
(First: Episode 0637)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

W
(First: Episode 0641)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

X
(First: Episode 0638)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10

Y
(First: Episode 0626)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Z
(First: Episode 0614)
variants: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

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