Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by any chance. There was a scene where a girl blew up into a blueberry and oompa loompas rolled her away.
Maybe that was the bowling ball thing you remembered.
Perhaps Conti is confusing the Annette Funicello version with the Drew Barrymore version?
Ellen, you might be right now that I think about it. I thought I had remembered seeing Babes in Toyland the movie, but now I remember that I had seen the play, not the movie. So that very well could had been the movie I was seeing at my grandparents’ that day. I was so young, that I wouldn’t had put two and two together when I saw the play at a much later date.
Thanks, I’ll try and see if I can find that on somewhere; but if it’s as bad as you say it is, I might not even waste my time!