A large orange bird with nice coloured feathers on her head and tail.
On this goup foto you can see the cat Tita in the middle of the 1st row and at the left you slightly see the barrel where the grouch Ferrao lives in.
I' ve had some information from a formal cameraman who worked the last three seasons on Rua Sesamo.
The show had three main writing directions;
1. The glidelines from USA,
2. The Portugese autors and writers who where specialised in kids and pedagogy.
3. And the actours who gave the show and the muppets an special interpetation.
Each of the muppets were created in a way that, all together, they represented the childeren. In their several ways of living and exploring the world...
There was Poupas, the orange/ yellow Big Bird. The one who was curious all the time and always willing to help an other. Who wanted to learn about everything.
And Ferrao, he liveid in a trashcan like Oscar. He was an orange brown Grouch and the contester. His first word was "no", made collections of everything.... like bottle caps. But he also was tender as all the others.. even naive! As a point of curiosity he was trying to grow an 'agripino'. That is a mixture of agriao (watercress) with pepino (cucumber). The show never came as far of the end of the experiment, so they never tasted it. Hehehehe!
The Gata Tita was the Portugese contribution of the imaginary world of Sesame Street. She was a cat that was manipulated by two female puppeteers. One of them came awfully close to the cats character.
Doing this show was very fun! We all, the technitians and actors loved Ferrao. As well as we loved the two puppeteers that manipulated the muppet.
We were sometimes working between 30 to 40 persons, actors, technicians, cameramen.... We were as one family living on and for the show, for three months in a row for a year.
We had romances beginning there that ended in a marriage, lots of fun at and after work.
Each small story began with the text, grown with the work in the studio and ended up as a collective production."
Best regards,
J.C. D.
P.S. They also broadcasted this version in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape-Verde and Sao Tome and Principe.
