| LC control no. | n 88226076 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lamorisse, Albert |
| Associated country | France |
| Associated place | Tunisia |
| Birth date | 1922-01-13 |
| Death date | 1970-06-02 D2 naf |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Karaj (Iran) |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors |
| Found in | Omnibus. V, vol. 20 [MP] 1957: credits (Albert Lamorisse, production) The red balloon, c1990: jkt. (b. Jan. 13, 1922 in Paris, France; d. June 2, 1970 in a helicopter crash) LC data base, 2-27-89 (hdg.: Lamorisse, Albert) Criterion.com website, Cairns, David. Head in the clouds : the cinema of Albert Lamorisse, Dec. 12, 2023, viewed March 28, 2024 (French director Albert Lamorisse; focus on three subjects--children, animals, and flight; graduated from France's national film school in 1945; headed to Tunisia, where he helped photograph a documentary short, Kairouan, then made his own, Djerba (1947) about the potters on that island; then produced Bim, the Little Donkey (1951) and White Mane (1953); injured in an avalanche in the Alps and laid up for several months while preparing a project about bear cubs in the Alps; then threw himself into making The Red Balloon (1956); during filming of The Lovers' Wind (shot in 1970, released in 1978), Lamorisse and others died in crash/sinking of helicopter by Karaj Dam near Tehran when it hit suspended cables; his son Pascal Lamorisse [main actor in The Red Balloon], who witnessed the crash, completed the film with his mother according to his father's wishes) <https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8336-head-in-the-clouds-the-cinema-of-albert-lamorisse> |
| Associated language | fre |
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