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Fun in Balloon Land
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Fun in Balloon Land is a No Budget children's film from 1965 that is essentially documentary footage of a Philadelphia Thanksgiving paradenote at the time sponsored by the Gimbel's department store; after they closed in The '80s, the parade was later sponsored by Boscov's, IKEA, and currently Dunkin' with a 15-minute scripted prologue added in an attempt to provide some semblance of a plot. It presumably was only screened in regional or local theaters during Saturday matinees before vanishing from the public eye, only to resurface in the Public Domain around 2009 through the efforts of Something Weird Video. In 2014, the film was mocked via RiffTrax.A little boy named Sonny falls asleep as his mother reads him a bedtime story, and then dreams that he is in "Balloon Land" (really a Philadelphia warehouse). Actually, no, he doesn't do that; he sleepwalks over to a giant storybook nearby and just stands there, and then sort of poofs into Balloon Land. There, Sonny meets a diverse array of creepy balloon floats, visits a farm, meets mermaids and lobsters under the sea, and saves a stagecoach in the Old West, accompanied by offensive Native American caricatures. After 15 minutes, the film gives up and the last 40 minutes consists mostly of straight parade footage, with occasional shots of Sonny watching the floats. Also, the parade is narrated by a woman who is way too into the parade.Not to be confused with the 1935 theatrical short Balloon Land. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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She also claims that a balloon named "Ms. Hippo" was blown away by the wind, even though no articles about a giant balloon belonging to Giant Parade Balloons, Inc., being blown away have surfaced. It could just be a tongue-in-cheek case of Unreliable Narrator. Especially, since she caps off the anecdote with "It's true! Just ask me!"... after, you know, she already said it. | |
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Tonto Talk: The Native American balloons, as if their grotesque appearance wasn't offensive enough. | |
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Pædo Hunt: Though unintentional, the scene where Sonny meets the King of the Ocean gives off a lot of uncomfortable vibes. | |
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Hollywood Natives: The Native American balloons are offensive even by sixties standards! | |
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Large Ham: The woman narrating the parade is so alarmingly enthusiastic about it that she sounds like she's either drunk, stoned, aroused or having a psychotic mental breakdown. Or all of the above. | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: At times during the parade, the woman will say something about a specific balloon character that isn't shown on screen: The most egregious example is when she mentions Humpty Dumpty when he isn't even shown on screen! (Due to the camera being zoomed in too close) Though he is clearly visible during the "guessing game" at the very end of the movie. Another example is when the Walrus balloon shows up, she says the Walrus is crying (which is not shown, because we only see the Walrus from the back) because he ate the oysters that he promised to take a walk by the sea. This actually did happen in the poem by Lewis Carroll that it was based on, but the neither the poem or the book Through the Looking Glass are mentioned at all. She also claims that a balloon named "Ms. Hippo" was blown away by the wind, even though no articles about a giant balloon belonging to Giant Parade Balloons, Inc., being blown away have surfaced. It could just be a tongue-in-cheek case of Unreliable Narrator. Especially, since she caps off the anecdote with "It's true! Just ask me!"... after, you know, she already said it. | |
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Follow the Bouncing Ball | |
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Follow the Bouncing Ball: There's not an actual bouncing ball, but all the lyrics to the "Balloonland" song are shown onscreen as it plays, invoking this trope. | |
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Sugar Bowl | |
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Sugar Bowl: The titular Balloon Land plays this straight. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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Another example is when the Walrus balloon shows up, she says the Walrus is crying (which is not shown, because we only see the Walrus from the back) because he ate the oysters that he promised to take a walk by the sea. This actually did happen in the poem by Lewis Carroll that it was based on, but the neither the poem or the book Through the Looking Glass are mentioned at all. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: From the way the plot is set up, the movie seems to be Sonny's dream since his mother was reading him a bedtime story, and that would explain the parade being shoehorned in, since he actually "wakes" up from that at the end of the movie, but he doesn't actually lie down and go to sleep, he walks up to a tall standing storybook and just stands there and gets magicked into Balloon Land. And then when he wakes up, he goes back to sleep in his mother's lap AGAIN! | |
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Shout-Out: During the parade sequence, a lot of fairytales and nursery rhymes are mentioned. The Show, Don't Tell moment with the crying Walrus is from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" from Through the Looking Glass. | |
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Public Domain Feature Films | |
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Public Domain Feature Films: The film's copyright expired 17 years before its rediscovery in 2009. | |
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Two Decades Behind | |
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Two Decades Behind: If you had no clue when this was made and had to guess a year, you'd probably say 1949 or so, with the unpolished color cinematography, cornball tone, and the archaic style of the "Balloonland" song. There's absolutely no way you'd guess that this was a product of The '60s. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: Unless you consider Sonny waking up after the whole hour of the parade and then going back to sleep again on his mother's lap to be an "ending". | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Although Sonny doesn't fall asleep to have the dream so much as to sleepwalk into it. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Sonny does not modulate his voice well and the tinny acoustics of the warehouse it was filmed in only makes it worse. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Nearly every other sentence coming off the narrator's mouth has the word "gay" in it, giving RiffTrax and The Cinema Snob plenty of jokes. It doesn't help that although this was the '60s, "gay" had begun to be used as a euphemism for "homosexual" around the time. | |
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