Balloon Land

1935 Family Animation Directed by Ub Iwerks

About Balloon Land

In Balloon Land the people, the trees, and the rocks are all balloons, including caricatures of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. The Pincushion Man walks through popping them with pins. The balloons blow up an army in a hurry and drive him off.

Cast & crew

More about Balloon Land

Ub Iwerks produced the short in his ComiColor series. It is also called The Pincushion Man. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music.

Themes

A town of balloons
Pins
An army blown up on the spot
Balloon Land
Pincushion Man
pins
Laurel and Hardy
Chaplin
Ub Iwerks

Background

A 1935 ComiColor cartoon from Iwerks's studio.

Making

Iwerks built the gags on inflation and puncture, with Stalling's score under the chase.

Music

Carl W. Stalling wrote the score.

Preservation

The cartoon survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Balloon versions of Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin are among the residents.
The villain's weapon is a supply of pins.

Scenes

The Pincushion Man pops the balloon citizens.
A freshly inflated army pushes him out.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Balloon Land by Ub Iwerks, 1935.webm)