Can't stop watching it

I saw this video for the first time in at least 25 years -- probably more like 30 -- when I borrowed a DVD of The Electric Company from the library. It actually makes my eyes well up, for a number of reasons. I think the most important is that it represents a long-dormant childhood memory. But I also think it's profoundly beautiful, with lovely filmic city poster artifacts, long-gone NYC cityscapes, and the spirit of New York that lived in the piece that Luc Sante wrote a few years ago in the New York Review of Books (here). It is stunning how different American cities looked just 30 years ago, and it's striking how much more wealthy and opulent the private realm has become since then.

Oddly enough, Ari refuses to watch it with me. I don't know why, especially since he loves most of the rest of the Electric Co.