Balloon Land

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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 a character named the Pincushion Man, who walks around Balloon Land popping the inhabitants with pins.

[edit] Notable appearances

• Several scenes from Balloon Land are shown during the movie 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.

[edit] See also

• ComiColor Cartoons
• Ub Iwerks

[edit] Reference

• Balloon Land (1935) at the Internet Movie Database