Balloon Land

Balloon Land
ComiColor Cartoons series

Balloon Land lobby card.
Directed by Ub Iwerks
Produced by Pat Powers
Voices by Billy Bletcher as the Pincushion Man (uncredited)
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Stephen Bosustow
Distributed by Celebrity Pictures
Release date(s) September 30, 1935
Color process Cinecolor
Running time 6:57
Language English

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.

Plot

The cartoon starts with balloon people who make two balloon kids, a boy and a girl. The kids walk into a balloon forest. A tree scares them. We then see the Pincushion Man popping balloon rocks and trees. The two kids then see the Pincushion Man and escape to sound the alarm. Balloon people run around and the kids run to the mayor's office, who says "HOLY SMOKES!". Balloon soldiers are made and try their best, but the villain pops some of them. He then pops a balloon caterpillar before the soldiers defeat him with balls of gum, rolling him off a precipice.

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