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I Am Big Bird, while focusing a lot on Spinney's personal life, is sure to include ideas and notions of what it means to be Big Bird. Day after day, Spinney's work attire consists of a hot, eight-foot-tall mascot, where he is positioned inside with his right arm extended in the air to move Bird Bird's mouth (and hold his head and neck up), while his left arm is placed inside Big Bird left wing.
For 45 years, Caroll Spinney has been beloved by generations of children as the man behind Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch - and at 80 years old, he has no intention of stopping. A loving portrait of the man in the yellow suit, I Am Big Bird features extraordinary footage of Spinney's earliest collaborations with Jim Henson as it traces his journey from bullied child to childhood ...
8 de dic. de 2019 · Inside the Big Bird costume since 1969 – that’s 49 years until his retirement in 2018! – has been one man, Carroll Spinney, and this charming documentary sets out to tell his story as well as the story of his most famous character (he also played, in contrast to the optimistic Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, who of course was my favourite character in the show – clearly, I’ve always been ...
In Loving Memory of Caroll Spinney; 1933 - 2019
4 de may. de 2015 · Now Caroll Spinney drops his fine-feathered obscurity (and emerges from his garbage-can fortress as Oscar the Grouch) for an enchanting film portrait, “I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story ...
6 de may. de 2015 · These anecdotes and more constitute “I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story,” a documentary about the man who has been making Big Bird walk, talk, sing and be generally lovable for some 45 years.
