Balloonfest (2017)

Mid-Missouri cult hero Nathan Truesdell sifts through a Cleveland TV station's archives and unearths a fancy wrist watch, blistered fingers and other casualties of a misbegotten exercise in civic pride. In September 1986, the city of Cleveland attempted to set a special record: the simultaneous launch of 1.5 million balloons. But fate intervened, and the result was both crazier and more tragic than anyone could have imagined.

Released June 29, 2017 7 min 11+

Genres: Documentary, History, Short

Keywords: tmdb.cleveland, tmdb.balloon, tmdb.news, mdblist.imdb-short, aspectratio.4-3, imdb.publicity-stunt, imdb.guiness-book-of-world-records + 3 more, imdb.balloon-drop, imdb.balloon-launch, imdb.balloon