
Follow That Bird
Director: Ken Kwapis Run Time: 88 min. Rating: G Release Year: 1985
Starring: Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Richard Hunt
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
The 10:30am screening on Saturday, June 14 takes the place of IPH’s “Saturday Morning Cartoons,” a free screening for families with young children.
*Join us after the 12:50pm screening on Sunday, June 15th, for a virtual talkback with Debra Spinney (wife of the late Actor/Writer Caroll Spinney). Debra was born the eldest of six children to Gene and Joan Gilroy in Brooklyn, NY. At 21, she joined the Children’s Television Workshop in Manhattan and it was there that she met the love of her life, Caroll Spinney. They spent the next 46.5 years together and along with Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, helped make the world a little smarter, stronger and kinder.