A rare family film that's actually good for a change. Stowaway in the Sky has a very light touch like the air balloon that our protagonists use to travel across France and eventually the Alps.
The story is a very simple one, a young boy, Pascal manages to stowaway on his grandfather's latest air balloon. They fly over the French countryside and narrowly miss church steeples and towers and that's about it for a plot.
What this film has going for it is spectacular aerial footage taken with a specially developed camera by the director Albert Lamorisse called "Helivision." This camera was sort of an early version of the "steady cam."
The photography in Cinemascope is remarkably clear and steady this is wide screen camera work at it's finest. The film took 3 years to complete and was apparently a very difficult production but the resulting film is very impressive. A really marvelous film.
This film was written by Albert Lamorisse, the running time is 85 minutes
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