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.
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- Oscilloscope
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- cleveland
- balloon
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Nathan Truesdell · Director, Editor
J. Gonçalves · Producer
Charlotte Cook · Producer
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