Malambars and Carambars

Ketty Belhassen, a former resident of 16 rue Vilin, recalls going up the stairs at the end of the street and frequenting the Boulangerie-Pâtisserie -- the same one as visited by Pascal in Le Ballon rouge...

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Pascal’s mother

Albert Lamorisse’s film productions were always more or less family affairs. His wife, Jeanne Claude Duparc, was also his script girl and assistant director. The films were conceived at the kitchen...

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Narrowest

Top: Pascal Lamorisse takes his red balloon into one of the narrowest alleys of Paris in Le Ballon rouge. Bottom: The same alley in Jacques Dupont's 1960 film Les Distractions. (With thanks to Roland-François...

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Narrower and narrower

In the fall of 1955 Pascal Lamorisse was seen running down a narrow alleyway trying to escape from a band of "voyous". As we point out in Furore (p. 70), this scene was shot in one of the two narrowest...

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Bookstore ad

C.J. Aarts found this advertisement for the Red Balloon book by the "Foreign Department" of Librairie Hachette in "Nieuwsblad voor de Boekhandel", Vol. 124 (1957) nr 4 (January 24, 1957), p. 76....

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