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the film was made. It's painful
to contrast that safe world with
what lurks on the streets today,
a mere five decades later.

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As everybody knows, Disney
cannot be topped when it
comes to children's films and
recordings. The music is memo-
One of the most endearing
rable, the singing beautiful, the
short films ever made is, at long
production incomparable.
last, out on video.
This latest effort from Disney,
Filmed in 1956, Albert Lam-
Classic
Disney: Volume HI,
orisse's The Red Balloon is the
falls right into that category. It
story of a small boy and his
includes such hits as, "I Wan'na
friend, a balloon which follows
Be Like You" from The Jungle
him everywhere — dutifully
Book and "Les Poissons" from
waiting outside his apartment
The Little Mermaid
window, chasing him into the
Of course, it also has "You've
schoolyard.
Got a Friend in Me," from Toy
There is virtually no dialogue
Storyand "Colors of the Wind,"
in The Red Balloon, which re-
from Pocahontas— tunes that
lies instead on cinematography
you must have heard at least 3
to capture a feeling, a perspec-
million times by now They're
tive, a thought It's brilliantly
pleasant, without a doubt, but
done.
it's like that Barney theme song.
Though made primarily for
How many times can you sit
children, of course, The Red
through certain songs without
Balloon is pure pleasure for
wanting to tear apart the CD
adults, as well. It's
with your own bare
poignant, though, to
teeth?
watch scenes of a lit-
The best numbers
tle boy wandering
on this recording are
alone about the
the old ones; it
streets of Paris, buy-
would be difficult to
ing a fresh roll from a
find anything more
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bakery and meeting
charming than origi-
up with another
nal numbers from Snow White
child, who carries a balloon that
or Bambi(included here are
initially entices the boy's floating
"The Dwarfs' Yodel Song" and
friend. This was all possible —
"Little April Shower).
quite ordinary, in fact — when

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of computer science, robotics,
and gene manipulation ad-
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may arise in our culture," he
writes.)
The text of the book aside,
the illustrations are remarkable.
They consist of a series of fabu-
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