Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Another showing of,Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon, perhaps the finest short motion picture yet made...
...sprightly line drawings, a baby toad happens upon an ox and rushes home to tell Mamma about its wondrous size. Proud of her own size and disdainful of "being outdone by any living creature," Mamma Toad puffs and puffs until she resembles a huge balloon. Then: "With all her might she puffed to the bursting point-and burst into little pieces...
...Filming One, Two, Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
...military possibilities were obvious -or so they seemed. During the Civil War, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, a daring airman, sailed out near Manassas in a balloon and located the victorious Confederates. Later, balloons were used successfully at the battle of Chancellorsville. But General George McClellan finally abandoned his air force because of the difficulty of transporting the big gasbags...
Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...