settima

balloons

Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola [The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola] (Marcel Perez + Luigi Maggi, 1913)

Dec

6

hot air balloons

Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (1913)

A fantastic hot air balloon fight, with machine gunners perched on top of one of the buoyant giants (via). DP: Ottavio De Matteis.

A hot air balloon*

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

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His Wife's Mistakes (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1916)

Aug

4

National Water Balloon Day

His Wife's Mistakes (1916)

Janitor Roscoe uses the comedy staple seltzer bottle to fill a balloon with some spritz!

The great Roscoe Arbuckle just can't help himself at the wonderfully hedonistic Oriental Café in this delightful short slapstick.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalWaterBalloonDay #balloons #RoscoeArbuckle #MintaDurfee #janitors #slapstick #comedy #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #USA #1910s ★★★½☆