What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
1.5 million balloons, a dream and a disaster.
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This is what people did to go viral in 1986.
1.5 million balloons, 2500 volunteers, a world record that probably not many people care about breaking, and disaster.
32 years later this random little documentary on the ill-fated Cleveland Balloonfest is a lesson on big ideas and the need to actually as the "what could possibly go wrong" question.
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