Follow That Bird
| Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird |
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Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney
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| Directed by | Ken Kwapis |
| Produced by |
Tony Garnett Ken Kwapis |
| Written by |
Judy Freudberg Tony Geiss |
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| Music by |
Lennie Niehaus (score) Van Dyke Parks (songs) |
| Cinematography | Curtis Clark |
| Edited by | Evan Landis |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $13.9 million |
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (commonly shortened to Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American musical road-comedy film, directed by Ken Kwapis, starring many Sesame Street characters (both puppets and live actors). This was the first of two Sesame Street feature films, followed in 1999 by The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. The film was produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Warner Bros., and filmed at the Toronto International Studios, and on location in the Greater Toronto Area.
This is also the final Muppet film to be released before the deaths of Jim Henson and Richard Hunt.
At the beginning of the film, the members of the Feathered Friends' Board of Birds (consisting of the Madame Chairbird, a sparrow, a turkey, a puffin, a robin, and an owl) discuss their situation about Big Bird and hope that they can find a bird family to put him with. The group's social worker Miss Finch (performed by Cheryl Wagner and voiced by Sally Kellerman) is sent to Sesame Street to find Big Bird a worthy bird family and bring him to the selected family. After leaving Sesame Street, New York City, New York, Miss Finch brings Big Bird to the fictional town of Oceanview, Illinois to live with a family of dodos. The dodos all think very poorly of non birds, even saying he should have a bird as a best friend instead of Mr. Snuffleupagus (who is currently watching over Big Bird's nest). This causes him much distress.
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