We were employed by a lads magazine to inflate 120 x 3ft balloons with helium and attach them to a midget to see if he would float. The event and procedure was also shown in a documentary which I edited and upload to YouTube.
At all times we had a safety line to make sure this guy wouldn’t fly away. Surprisingly he was really calm and had a great sense of humour. To make sure he didn’t suddenly fly away we stored the filled 3ft’s at various tying points near the car park of the Rugby pitch. We then gradually attached them to his harness and staggered the heights for a better visual effect.
Eventually when we got to the stage where he was nearly floating I picked him up and threw him into the air for that perfect magazine centre spread photo.
