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If you don’t watch the video: it’s footage of an I-beam being created at a factory. As an adult, this is not scary. As a young child, this is terrifying. There is no narration, none of your Sesame Street friends are here with you. This is a large glowing letter I that the camera never breaks away from. It’s mashed and chunks appear to break off of it. The music is a ominous sounding piano with occasional trumpet bursts and anvil clanks. At the very end the camera freezes on the I-beam and we get two final crashing piano and anvil notes. The whole thing lasts less than a minute, and then we’re on to the next segment. There’s no context for what you just saw, no lead-in, and no one makes mention of it after.
It scared the hell out of me. If I saw this early in the morning, I’d be in an anxious state for the rest of the day.
Obligatory not Sesame Street, but here’s a horror from my childhood:
Ooh, neat! I’ve been working on learning French and I’d heard that a good way to practice was to watch kids’ TV in the language you’re trying to learn, but hadn’t found much. This fucked-up talking pineapple show looks like just the ticket!
That’s exactly what they showed it to us for. I still retain some French, and horrific memories that haunt me for eternity. Go for it!
Jesus Christ, my heart started racing just seeing that image. Thanks for reawakening this forgotten terror.
Whoa, I haven’t seen that in probably almost 40 years.
