{"id":615204,"date":"2026-04-30T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:12:27","slug":"putnam-library-to-screen-may-7-documentary-about-big-bird-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615204\/","title":{"rendered":"Putnam library to screen May 7 documentary about Big Bird \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/putnam-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/putnam-county\/\">Putnam County <\/a>Public Library District\u2019s Condit branch will host a Docs &amp; Dialogue screening of \u201cI Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story,\u201d at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">For more than 45 years, Caroll Spinney delighted generations of children as the performer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. \u201cI Am Big Bird\u201d is an intimate portrait of the man inside the iconic yellow suit, featuring rare footage from his early collaborations with Jim Henson and tracing Spinney\u2019s journey from a bullied childhood to cultural icon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The film is 1 hour and 30 minutes, not rated, and made possible through Kanopy. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call 815-339-2038 or visit the library at 105 N. Center St., Putnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Putnam County Public Library District\u2019s Condit branch will host a Docs &amp; Dialogue screening of \u201cI Am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[267061,267060,88,267062,206],"class_list":["post-615204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bcr","tag-bureau-county","tag-entertainment","tag-illinois-valley-front-headlines","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}