Dot Bridge

"Dot Bridge" refers to a series of animated shorts produced by Clark Gesner for the first season of Sesame Street, six of which were first seen in the premiere episode.First Season Show Content document from CTW Archives
In each short, a series of 30 dots appear on-screen, often with various complications impeding the process. The series was meant to teach children "pre-reading skills by training the eye to take in information from left to right, or as one reads on a page."Sesamestreet.org Episode Guide from 2009 (archive site link)
The shorts were used as transitions between segments and continued to be shown irregularly on the show through the early 1990s. In many of its later airings, the colors were altered or changed depending on the episode.
The score for the segments was written by Joe Raposo and was among the first pieces of music recorded by the house band for the series in June 1969.
The series was referenced orally in Episode 4199, where Raposo's theme for the segments was used in the score as Abby Cadabby's freckles magically come off her face.
==Segments==
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 	#1 	All thirty dots appear uniformly.
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 	#2 	The last dot is late and travels through the others.
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 	#3 	The last dot shows up early.
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 	#4 	The third dot wants to be red.
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 	#5 	All the dots are red, but the last appears yellow. After a few seconds, it changes back to red.
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 	#6 	The third dot blows a raspberry.
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 	#7 	#7: The third dot doesn't appear, so the first two dots back up. Thirty dots very quickly roll out, but the third soon disappears. In response, the last dot moves its way around the others and blows a raspberry at the vacant third spot.
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 	#8 	The eighth dot can't stop coughing, so it leaves the group.
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 	#9 	The eighth dot can't stop coughing, so the ninth dot leaves and returns with a smaller dot, who eagerly can't resist scatting along to the musical beats.
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 	#10 	The eighth little dot manages to stay quiet, says it did okay this time, and gets a kiss from the ninth dot.
 	#11 	A lone square appears, but doesn't allow any dots to appear, so the dots all gather in a tight group to form a square. However, the lone square doesn't fall for this trick.
 	#12 	The square remains in the corner, forcing the dots to gather closely again. The third dot then changes color, but is put into place by its peers.
 	#13 	A square crosses into the path of the dots causing them to huddle around it.
 	#14 	The dots line up at the same time as some squares who ultimately dominate the board.
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 	#15 	The dots and the squares meet in the middle and converse with one another resulting in the squares turning red. The dots remain yellow and join the squares in making a new rotating circular pattern.
 	#16 	The dots kick aside a crumpled object.
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==Notes==
* Some scripts (such as Episode 0001 and Episode 0040) where Dot Bridge #1 is repeated, count the second occurrence of #1 as #2, shifting the numbering of each subsequent segment up, labeling the "raspberry" segment as #7, when in fact it's the sixth.
==See also==
* A segment with forty dots that are counted, each one rising on a musical scale as their colors shift from red to orange.
==Sources==
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Category:Sesame Street Animated Segments