Balloon Land

Balloon Land

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Balloon Land
series = ComiColor Cartoons


caption = "Balloon Land" title card.
director = Ub Iwerks
voice_actor = Billy Bletcher (uncredited)
musician = Carl W. Stalling
producer = Pat Powers
distributor = Celebrity Pictures
release_date = September 30, 1935
color_process = Cinecolor
runtime = 6:57
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0146460

"Balloon Land", also known as "The Pincushion Man", is a 1935 animated short film produced by Ub Iwerks as part of the ComiColor Cartoons series. The cartoon is about a place called Balloon Land, whose residents (including popular entertainment icons such as Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin) are made entirely out of balloons. The villain in the cartoon is the Pincushion Man, a character who walks around Balloon Land popping the inhabitants with pins.

Notable appearances

*Several scenes from "Balloon Land" are shown during the films "The Devil’s Gift" and "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders".
*A portion of it was shown on an episode of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and it was also featured in the 1981 taping of The Pee-Wee Herman Show made as an HBO special.

ee also

*ComiColor Cartoons
*Ub Iwerks

References

*imdb title|id=0146460|title=Balloon Land (1935)


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