Red Balloon

Red Balloon or Red Balloons may refer to:

In cinema:

  • The Red Balloon, a 1956 French short film
  • Flight of the Red Balloon, a 2007 film based on the 1956 short film
  • Red Balloon (2010 film), a 2010 thriller short film directed by Alexis Wajsbrot and Damien Mace

In music:

  • "99 Luftballons" (an English version of which is called "99 Red Balloons"), a song by Nena
  • "Red Balloon", a song by Tim Hardin
  • Red Balloon (album), independent album by Sandra McCracken
  • redballoon, a Japanese rock duo

Other uses:

  • The 2009 DARPA Network Challenge (also known as the Red Balloon Challenge), involving spotting 10 red balloons in the Continental United States.
  • The Red Balloon Learner Centres, an educational charity

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or balloon:

    Hm, the beacon of the press. In the hell to which all journalists must descend when they die, Mr. Wiggam, we shall sit at red hot desks with quills of fire in our hand and spend eternity on eternity writing about the salubrious weather of that region. Let us serve our apprenticeship here thoroughly and intelligently.
    Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves. Now when the play’s done, the eyes taken away, I feel just as if a circuit’s been broken. The power is switched off. I feel all gone and empty inside of me—like a balloon that’s been pricked and the air’s let out.
    Lynn Fontanne (1887–1983)