In the mid-1970s, Alan Root brought the first hot-air balloon to Africa for filming purposes, recognizing that airplanes were too fast to film animals adequately, while the noise of the slower helicopters frightened them away. A visually-stunning and amusing film is Root's Balloon Safari, made with his wife Joan, they chronicle the arrival of the balloons, as well as the tribulations of learning to fly them.
—Annonimus