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Title: Appalling Loses Its Meaning...
Review: ...when applied to this DVD. It would appear to have been transferred from a VHS copy. It's so soft as to be impossible to watch. I hope the director's family (he died in 1970) is simply holding back the original masters in hopes of making a deal for an authorized DVD version. "The Red Balloon" is such a wonderful little movie -- perhaps the best introduction to the cinema for any child -- but it is almost destroyed by the condition of the source used for this transfer. Can't we have a version that matches the film's vision for its 50th anniversary?
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