The red balloon

This edition published in 1968 (8th impression) by George Allen and Unwin, translated by Malcolm Barnes. Soooo nostalgic this one -a bittersweet story that I gazed at for ages even before I could read.

If you enjoy short films or you've thought about writing/making your own short film, a great short film to see, before you embark on your own script or production, is the multi-award winning French film, THE RED BALLOON (1956) written and directed by Albert Lamorisse and starring his son, Pascal. (RT 32 mins) Simply put, the film follows a red balloon that follows a boy around Paris. In contrast to the verbosity of today's motion pictures, there's almost no dialogue in the film, which went…

The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse ~ Delacourte Press, 1956 Again, if you were a child of a certain era, The Red Balloon was more than a ...

There is a 1956 French movie called “The Red Balloon.” It has minimal dialog and is about a little boy who has a red balloon for a pet, and yes the balloon sort of wiggles and interacts…

Free stock photo of a single red balloon tied with ribbon floating in the air against a black backdrop

Most of us are of the age where we remember that special day in grade school, where the curtains were drawn, the lights were turned off, and that familiar flicker from the projector, set up in the back of the class, began to spit light on the giant screen in front of us. Movie day was always my favorite thing in grade school, probably because I was a very visual child. It's funny that I still love movies, and the experience of sitting together in the darkness to be told a story. The one…

Pascal Lamorisse in The Red Balloon, the 1956 fantasy short film directed by Albert Lamorisse.

Red is for danger