Balloon Land
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Balloon Land | |
ComiColor Cartoons series | |
Balloon Land title card. |
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Directed by | Ub Iwerks |
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Voices by | Billy Bletcher (uncredited) |
Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
Produced by | Pat Powers |
Distributed by | Celebrity Pictures |
Release date | September 30, 1935 |
Format | Cinecolor, 6:57 |
Language | English |
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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 the Pincushion Man, a character 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.