Original sentence: Each of the skits followed the same basic format.The Painter announces that he was going to paint a specific number, all while scouting out a suitable location to engage in said activity; he would then pull a stencil of the number out of his smock to emphasize the shape of said number.This series of comedy films, generally running anywhere from one minute to 90 seconds, were used to teach children number recognition and how the number is drawn, as opposed to the show's other animated and live-action skits which emphasized counting
Edited sentence: The Painter announces that he is going to paint a specific number, all while scouting out a suitable location to engage in said activity; he would then pull a stencil of the number out of his smock to emphasize the shape of said number.The series was in contrast to the show's other animated and live-action skits, whose focus was on counting.The skits in each of the films followed the same basic format.This series of comedy films — each one ran anywhere from one minute to 90 seconds — were used to teach children number recognition, including appearance and symbolic representation of Arabic numerals, and how the number is drawn