Speaking of Sesame Street, here are more videos* from Big Bird in China, a 1983 PBS special filmed in Beijing and around China before there were KTVs, tapas bars, wi-fi connections and expat villas.
The production came on the heels of a thawing in relations between and the US and a newly opened and reformed China, and the Western media crew was granted relatively unprecedented access to film people and places across China.
*Part G is missing from Youtube
