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Angel Falls and Canaima tours
Canaima, Venezuela
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Pixar’s artists spent three nights on Mount Roraima. A Seattle house wore the film’s balloons for a day. Eight real places tie the house down.
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Cut the ballast
What was holding it down
Each bag is a real place tied to the film. Cut one and see why.
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0 of 8 bags cut
Eight sandbags hold the house down. Cut one.
Nothing cut yet.
Start with the tepuis, where the film began.
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Sacramento Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
Land Park, Sacramento
The zoo where Pixar artists sketched Himalayan monals for Kevin. The birds live in the Red Panda Forest. Check the zoo’s page for hours.
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How many balloons?
A real house would need far more than the film used. Pick a total.
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In the flying shots
10,297
Bar drawn against 23,000,000; the first two are barely visible.
Wikipedia says a technical director estimated Carl’s house would need 23 million balloons. Docter had balloons made twice Carl’s size instead.
The film uses 10,297 balloons for the flying shots and 20,622 for the lift-off, Wikipedia says.
A working studio campus. This page lists no tours; check Pixar’s own site before planning a visit.
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Go and find the weights
Angel Falls, Roraima, the tepuis, the zoo, the Dolby Theatre and the Cannes seafront can be visited. The studio is a working campus. Edith Macefield’s house is private, so only its street is named and nothing is pinned.
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Where it is now
7 places you can visit, from Venezuela to Cannes, plus one private street named only.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Remote. Fly to Canaima camp, then take a river trip towards the base; Wikipedia says these usually run June to December.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A trek of three to five days, with a night at base camp and a night on the summit, per Wikipedia. Needs a permit and a guide.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Seen from Canaima camp, from the river, or on a flight. Check each tour operator for current routes.
Salto Ángel, the waterfall that drops from Auyán-tepui in Canaima National Park, Venezuela, November 2007. Diego Delso · CC BY 3.0 Venezuela · Auyán-tepui, Canaima National Park, Bolívar State, Venezuela
Angel Falls
Angel Falls drops over Auyán-tepui in Canaima National Park, Bolívar State, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Remote. Fly to Canaima camp, then take a river trip towards the base; Wikipedia says these usually run June to December.
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Mount Roraima seen from the summit plateau, Venezuela, March 2003. portodaspartes · CC BY 2.0 Venezuela · Gran Sabana, Bolívar State, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet
Mount Roraima
Roraima’s highest point is 2,810 metres. About 85 per cent of the plateau lies in Venezuela, at the junction with Brazil and Guyana.
A trek of three to five days, with a night at base camp and a night on the summit, per Wikipedia. Needs a permit and a guide.
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Auyán-tepui seen from the Churún river, Bolívar State, Venezuela, October 2013. Jackson Perdomo · CC BY-SA 3.0 Venezuela · Auyán-tepui and its neighbours, Canaima National Park, Venezuela
The Canaima tepuis
Docter found the tepuis through a television documentary, Pixar’s page says.
Seen from Canaima camp, from the river, or on a flight. Check each tour operator for current routes.
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Stay
A room on the boulevard.
A Hollywood hotel a short way from the Oscars theatre.
The Hollywood Roosevelt
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
A 1927 hotel at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, a short way along the boulevard from the Dolby Theatre. Its own page says it hosted the first Academy Awards dinner in 1929. Pictured: the Dolby Theatre, 2015.
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Pick a place.
The zoo that sketched Kevin’s bird, river trips to the falls and walks past the Oscars theatre.
Sacramento Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
Land Park, Sacramento
The zoo where Pixar artists sketched Himalayan monals for Kevin. The birds live in the Red Panda Forest. Check the zoo’s page for hours.
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The archive
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
8 of 8 places · 8 of 8 stories
Angel Falls
Auyán-tepui, Canaima National Park, Bolívar State, Venezuela
Angel Falls
The team visits Angel Falls, the model for Paradise Falls.
Mount Roraima
Gran Sabana, Bolívar State, where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet
Three nights on Roraima
Docter and eleven artists reach Roraima by plane, jeep and helicopter and paint there for three nights.
The Canaima tepuis
Auyán-tepui and its neighbours, Canaima National Park, Venezuela
The documentary
Docter finds the tepuis in a television documentary, and Pixar sends artists to study them.
Sacramento Zoo
3930 West Land Park Drive, Land Park, Sacramento
A bird for Kevin
Pixar artists photograph and sketch Himalayan monals in Sacramento.
Pixar Animation Studios
1200 Park Avenue, Emeryville
The balloon count
A technical director’s 23 million balloons becomes 10,297 in flight and 20,622 at lift-off.
Ballard, Seattle
NW 46th Street, Ballard, Seattle
Balloons on a roof
Disney ties dozens of balloons to a Ballard house for a 2009 marketing event.
Cannes
Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Boulevard de la Croisette, Cannes
Opening night
Up opens the Cannes festival, the first animated film to do so.
Dolby Theatre
6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Oscar night
Up wins Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.
