"The Red Balloon"

 The 34-minute French film, The Red Balloon (Le ballon rouge) premiered at Cannes on March 3, 1956. It was released in the U.S. on March 11, 1957. I remember watching it during the 1960s, at a summer Evans Public Library event for kids. The film is about a boy who has adventures with a sentient red balloon. Interesting to read that the Belleville and Ménilmontant areas of Paris, where the movie was filmed, declined in the 1960s and many locations were razed. So the film provides a visual record of those neighborhoods as they were.