Poverty Pictures segments

Poverty Pictures was a New York-based animation studio, specializing in commercial work, which produced a series of cartoon inserts for Sesame Street, which debuted in the show's first season.
The studio was founded in 1967 by three animators: George Bakes, Cliff Roberts, and John Paratore;Michael Sporn's Splog. August 1967 issue of Top Cell industry newsletter. the Sesame Street cartoons were animated by Paratore and Roberts (who later animated his own segments and illustrated the Sesame Street comic strip).
Common voice actors in these segments included Jim Thurman, Bob Arbogast, and Gene Moss.
==Segments (Cliff Roberts)==
Bigacartoon.jpg|A — A man creates an avalanche on the letter A.
Image:1037h.jpg|F — A man tries to remember a word beginning with the letter F, and another man lists as many words as he can think of to help him. 
File:Hisforhorn.jpg|H — A man tries to talk about the letter H, but a second man interrupts him by listing H words.
Kangaroowithk.jpg|K — Karen the Kangaroo talks about words that start with the letter K. Featuring the sped-up voice of Gene Moss.
File:Qwords.jpg|Q — A man demonstrates Q words, although the unruly stem of his letter Q keeps detaching itself.
Image:Tisfortrash.jpg‎|T — A man in glasses explains T words and abuses another character with some of them (he's tangled and twirled in twine). The latter turns out to be a cop, who presents him with a ticket for his trash. 
File:Awardu.jpg|U — A man gives an award to the letter U.
File:X-ends.jpg|X — A man can't think of words that begin with x, so he lists words that end with x.
File:PovertyZ.jpg|Z — A salesman tries to sell a Z. His customer stops the hard sell by locking the salesman in a zoo cage.
==Segments (John Paratore)==
Aapestory.jpg|A — A story about an ape and a bird.
Nisfornifty.jpg|N — An N-terview with an N.
Overandoverhorse.jpg|O — An O rolls over a horse.
udogcartoon.jpg|U - A dog learns about U.
==Sources==
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Category:Sesame Street Animated Segments