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:

    “‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)