![]() Many of Sony Wonder's other releases had a special animated "Sesame Street Home Video" sequence, which features Big Bird, Elmo, Snuffy, Cookie Monster, Ernie and Zoe building the words "Home Video" under the Sesame Street sign. Sony Wonder released a handful of new Sesame Street videos with the My Sesame Street Home Video and Sesame Songs opening logo sequences, but these logos didn't appear on the video packaging. While quite a few video releases from Random House had detailed backgrounds, until 2004 nearly all of Sony Wonder's releases had plain-colored backgrounds. With some rereleases ( Learning About Letters, Learning About Numbers, etc) the main packaging changes were the lack of a border and different background, while other rereleases ( Getting Ready to Read, Play-Along Games and Songs, etc.) had much more significant cover changes. Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years was the only video re-released by Sony Wonder to not have any major packaging changes. Unlike Random House (with the exception of the Sesame Songs videos), most Sony Wonder video releases had song listings on the back covers. Unlike the Random House releases, Sony Wonder's releases didn't have a border on the cover, and the back covers featured an image on the back. In 1995, Sony Wonder took over distribution of Sesame Street videos, rereleasing many past video releases in addition to releasing new-to-video releases. Sesame Street Celebrates Around the World 1994 Sony Wonder These two videos were Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Hospital and Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Firehouse. Also, during that year, Random House released its first two direct-to-video Sesame Street productions to not have segments from the show. The videos came with song lyric posters, and while past video series featured a listing of other videos in those collections on the back covers, this series didn't list other Sesame Songs releases, instead using the space to list the songs that appear on the videos. ![]() All of these releases were themed around song sketches. In 1990, Random House started releasing another video series, Sesame Songs Home Video. ![]() Also, in this video series, words appeared on-screen as Big Bird narrated. Also, while Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, and Fran Brill provided voices to the Golden Video releases, only Caroll Spinney provided voices to this video series, narrating the videos as Big Bird, and also providing voices of all other characters. These were similar to the Golden Video releases, being that they featured still images from various storybooks, but unlike those videos, the Start-To-Read videos did not include any animation. Around this time Random House also released another series of videos, Sesame Street Start-to-Read Video. In 1987, Random House started releasing Sesame Street television specials on video, with the first specials released on video being Big Bird in China, Don't Eat the Pictures, and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. These videos also originally came with special activity booklets. The first collection of Sesame Street videos from Random House was My Sesame Street Home Video, which were approximately 30 minutes long (as opposed to an hour, like the average Sesame Street episode). ![]() Most collections of videos featured a number in the "proof of purchase" box on the side panels. The back covers didn't include any pictures, just a summary and usually a listing of other Sesame Street videos available on Random House Home Video. The packaging for these usually featured an image in a border on the cover. In 1986, Random House Home Video started releasing Sesame Street videos.
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