A sheep, a duck and a rooster, a balloon above Versailles, and a world learning to look up.
Made with Opus 5.5 · music by echohive An artistic retelling of the 1783 flight. Motion, flashes and sound.
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Climb to the Sky
VERSAILLES · 19 SEPTEMBER 1783
Eight minutes, three and a half kilometres, and all three passengers survived. Two months later, on 21 November, two men rode a Montgolfier balloon over Paris. People could fly.