--- title: See the Air Mattress Video From This Windy Movie Night description: Coming soon to an outdoor movie near you: the flight of the air mattresses. canonical: https://time.com/5656560/air-mattress-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-20T18:52:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T22:00:08.000Z og:title: Sit Back and Enjoy the Air Mattress Video From This Windy Movie Night og:description: You're going to want to sit down for this one og:url: https://time.com/5656560/air-mattress-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09ed87f4d36f80b1/698a01a0b21a9c0c03502390/movienight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5160 og:image:height: 2903 og:image:alt: GERMANY-CINEMA-LEISURE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sit Back and Enjoy the Air Mattress Video From This Windy Movie Night twitter:description: You're going to want to sit down for this one twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09ed87f4d36f80b1/698a01a0b21a9c0c03502390/movienight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sit Back and Enjoy the Hilarious Flight of the Air Mattresses on a Very Windy Outdoor Movie Night > Sponsored content. 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People watch a movie on a giant screen during the Movie nights open-air cinema festival at the Elbe river banks on July 24, 2019 in Dresden's old city.Robert Michaael—AFP/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:00 PM UTCPublished: Aug 20, 2019 6:52 PM UTC Residents of Denver, Colorado’s Stapleton neighborhood thought they were going to watch a movie in the great outdoors, what they witnessed instead was “[The Great Mattress Migration of 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7CSbnwavJM).” As many as 150 mattresses had been set up for an outdoor movie night in the park, [according to _The Denver Channel_](https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/a-flock-of-mattresses-attempts-to-take-flight-on-runway-35-in-stapleton), but before moviegoers could kick back in those air mattresses to watch [_Back to the Future_](https://theknow.denverpost.com/2019/07/11/bed-cinema-denver-outdoor-movies/218802/) in style, a sudden storm swept through. Without humans to weigh them down, the mattresses were free to go wherever the wind would take them. So the wind picked up the air mattresses and sent that flock of mattresses blowing in the wind and flying across the city’s Runway 35 Park. [According to the ](https://www.denverpost.com/2019/08/19/great-mattress-migration-stapleton-bed-cinema-event/)[_Denver Post_](https://www.denverpost.com/2019/08/19/great-mattress-migration-stapleton-bed-cinema-event/)_,_ local Robb Manes was hanging out in a swimming pool when the wind kicked up. He was understandably surprised when an air mattress dropped out of the sky, like an unwanted Amazon delivery. It landed in the pool next to him, as if the storm wanted Manes to have a new floatie. After the first few air mattresses were air dropped on him, Manes decided to get out of the pool to find out what was going on. That’s when he saw the air mattress version of a [_Sharknado_](https://time.com/3057837/sharknado-2-everything-you-need-to-know/) heading his way. Instead of running for cover, Manes bravely whipped out his camera to capture the footage as the wind carried some 50 to 100 mattresses straight at him. Like the greatest [storm chasers](https://time.com/longform/better-storm-prediction/) and weather-beaten [meteorologists](https://time.com/5116622/joel-taylor-dead-storm-chasers/), Manes stood his ground despite the risks. If his footage of the Great Mattress Migration of 2019, in the video above, doesn’t earn him a Pulitzer, hopefully at least it should earn him a job with _National Geographic_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5656560/air-mattress-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5656560/air-mattress-video/"},"headline":"Sit Back and Enjoy the Hilarious Flight of the Air Mattresses on a Very Windy Outdoor Movie Night","datePublished":"2019-08-20T18:52:23.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T22:00:08.000Z","description":"Coming soon to an outdoor movie near you: the flight of the air mattresses.","url":"https://time.com/5656560/air-mattress-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09ed87f4d36f80b1/698a01a0b21a9c0c03502390/movienight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09ed87f4d36f80b1/698a01a0b21a9c0c03502390/movienight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GERMANY-CINEMA-LEISURE","caption":"outdoor movie night","creditText":"Robert Michaael—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5656560/air-mattress-video/","name":"Sit Back and Enjoy the Hilarious Flight of the Air Mattresses on a Very Windy Outdoor Movie Night"}}]}] ```