Famous Balloon Movies - 18 Chapter Collection

[DominaElle]

4:44

[DominaElle]

You are THE baddest of the balloon bads!! AMAZING and incredibly creative!!! THANKS!!!!!

[SteveSabbai]

...who would of thought that something so simple and silly would be so entertaining...good job...

[Margebird]

I laughed. This is hysterical,

[weasknoquarter]

1:54 excellent

[hafecktor]

great work

[hafecktor]

hiii

[Daredevil98]

Amazing. Well-executed! Wow! :P

[brabon1]

pure genius

[jts729]

This is absolutely amazing. Brilliant execution. And what an array of movies. Bravo.

[CyberShire]

Thanks so much jts729!  Much appreciated.

[framo3000]

I'm sharing this with as many people as I can in my film classes. Fantastic!

[CyberShire]

Wow - thanks framo3000!

[m0destm0useisg0d]

hey what happened to video's 12-17? i can't find them on your page. just wondering

[CyberShire]

Hi m0dest - I never broke them out with separate titles, so they only exist in this edit. Stuff like King Kong, African Queen, Stormy Weather, etc. I figured the compilation would be a bit more special if it had some bonus material.

[shortaweekproject]

I don't think balloons were in those movies.

[calicobabe123]

thats the funny part.

there not supose 2 b.

[papakos12]

Which musical is between 5:50-6:05?

[CyberShire]

Ah yes, that part is the Nicholas Brothers dancing in the film "Stormy Weather". The entire dance (without balloon) is posted on YouTube. They were AMAZING dancers!

[papakos12]

thanks a lot

[Famousindieminute]

You are an Unadulterated Brilliant Genius...

I especially love North by Northwest and Casablanca!

[CyberShire]

Thank you!  You are most kind! :)

[RockChickNinetyEight]

Wonderful! Thank you so much! :-)

[museticalsuburbia]

Great work - love it. What about Apocalypse Now, The God Father, The Great Escape, The Italian Job? You are very clever

[CyberShire]

Great suggestions! I wish I could do them all. Just trying to get time between paying gigs...

[aantv]

If you do the Italian Job, please PLEASE make sure you use the original British version (with Noel Coward and Michael Caine) and not the recent Hollywood version.

[CyberShire]

Excellent advice!

[PhilPunxsutawney]

AWESOME! Creative and with outstanding tech! * * * * *

[CyberShire]

Thank you so much Phil.

[cbrooks5418]

Outstanding! I especially loved the Butch and Sundance sequence.

[CyberShire]

Thanks Clark - had fun making it pop loose after the last splash.

[YouT00ber]

awesome job!

[CyberShire]

thanks YouToober

[pinballio]

how the heck did those guys do those splits?

[jrbaskind]

Training and talent!

[kakurofan]

It's actually not any harder for guys to do splits, with proper stretching. It actually has no stretching effect on male parts (only the legs are affected), yet everybody cringes instinctively.

[pinballio]

the fact that they start their splits in a freefall....WOW!

[antonawer]

buenisimo!

[Bengeliscious]

I love it. That is one "loose balloon"....it was everywhere!

[Leeceekins]

hahaha so good!!

[RubyTuesday717]

My favorite is Cary Grant in NbNW--he's running for his dear life and he's got a balloon in his hand! LOL!

[gabzz103]

Great job, buddy!

One question though, which movie was that when that female hero shoots a gun then jumps into an air duct? Nikita?

[CyberShire]

Thanks gabzz103. Yeah, it was the Luc Besson movie Nikita (realeased as La Femme Nikita in the USA I think). Awesome scene to work with. :)

[howardbeale1976]

How do you do this? I think it's pretty amazing.

[CyberShire]

Thanks h - I lit a real balloon to match each scene, shot it against a green card, then key-framed all the movement with After Effects - motion blur activated. I used to be an animator, so this is a kind of zen return to the process. :)

[zaldunbeltza]

Amazing work! I try to think the best way to make something similar like this ...: mixing videos could be done at Premiere, but what about the object, its shape ... Flash would do? or is there an easier way?

[alexalex3131]

Sir, you are the real deal: A mad genius.

[heroesnotzombies]

Oh this is comic genius! This is by far and away one of the most creative and funniest videos I've seen on youtube. Classy! I laughed and laughed. Wonderful work. Thank you

[CyberShire]

You are most kind! It makes the long hours of pushing pixels about worth while.

[gadgetpictureshow]

Seriously, this video has to be YouTube at its best. If it doesn't get featured, it's only because the people who run the site are nervous about copyright stuff.

[CyberShire]

Many thanks :)

[MarkArnott]

These do surely brighten the day. Thanks, Jerry. I just had the pleasure of sending on Casablanca (chapter 2) to a friend to illustrate Bogart's subtext, and finally found the whole 18 chapter collection. You're an uplifting fella,

thanks,

Mark

[CyberShire]

Thanks. I've got another one brewing - just wrestling with how many hours there are in a day!  Best, Jerry

[delbongo]

These movies are wonderful! I discovered them by accident this afternoon and the Casablanca clips made me cry with laughter. Long may they continue.

[CyberShire]

Much appreciated delbongo. I've been crazy busy lately, but hope to add to the collection soon. :-)

[Liquidspaceman]

From the Lagoon of Liquidspaceman...

Great stuff!! It's good to find something funny on youtube and be able to show the whole family. BTW, did you grow up watching the red baloon? my class would always watch that movie everytime it rained and we couldn't go outside to play. Thanks for "covering up" the string in your clips. lol Hey, why don't you have a clip from the red balloon. You wouldn't have to edit anything ;)  ...Liquidspaceman, over and out

[CyberShire]

Thanks! Yes, I did see the Red Balloon. I think eventually my Yellow Balloon should fall in love with the Red Balloon and have a bunch of baby balloonettes...

[JMu12345]

Jerry:

I heard about these balloon vids on Cartoon Brew and watched them and loved them. It wasn't til I got here ( after seeing most of them already) that I discovered you were behind them. Brilliant!!! Gale and I paricularly like Singin in the Rain and Casablanca. Great stuff!!

Your fellow rat...

John M and Gale

[CyberShire]

Thanks John! What an awesome surprise to get your message. So nice to hear that these digital doodles made you smile. Yeah, certain moments (like Singin) seem so intentional in the original context that the shots appear incomplete without the balloon. Somebody told me that the Mary Poppins moment did that to them as well - they watched Mary nodding at nothing, and then thought "hey, where's the balloon?"

Thanks again. Big hello to Gale.

Rats forever!

Jerry

[k8fan]

Wonderful to see all these famous balloon scenes collected in one place. It will come in very useful to answer those who doubt the seminal role balloons have played in Hollywood.

[petro1986]

The King Kong one is very good, perhaps inspiration for you? apart for red balloons...

[CyberShire]

I'm thinking I should look through Peter Jackson's version of King Kong again. I could swear I saw a balloon.

[petro1986]

Some one once told me that the hero of every film are duck. He said that in every film there are some ducks, then he goes onto ruining his point by saying 'ducks aren't always in films, sometimes you have to look a bit deeper for chickens, and such'

But yeah, BALLOONS!!!

[petro1986]

Owch for the guys doing the splits down the stairs...

[CyberShire]

No kidding!!!

[petro1986]

BTW this is great!

[CyberShire]

Thanks :)