History of Sesame Street including changing its traditional magazine format to a narrative format. Because of the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, the show incorporated a popular segment known as "Elmo's World". "Sesame Street" has won eight Grammys and over a hundred Emmys in its history—more than any other children's show. In the late 1960s, 97% of all American households owned a television set, and preschool children watched an average of 27 hours of television per week; programs created for them were widely criticized for being too violent and for reflecting commercial values. Producer Joan Ganz Cooney called children's programming a "wasteland", and she
Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln (born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt) (February 6, 1889June 27, 1952) was an American film actor. Lincoln is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's "Tarzan of the Apes" as an adult (Gordon Griffith played him as a child in the same movie). He portrayed the character twice more—in "The Romance of Tarzan" (also 1918) and in the 1921 serial "The Adventures of Tarzan". Following the end of the silent movie era, Elmo left Hollywood and tried his hand at mining. In the late 1930s, he returned to the film industry, most