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Inflatable
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An inflatable is an object that can be inflated with a gas, usually with air, but hydrogen, helium and nitrogen are also used. One of several advantages of an inflatable is that it can be stored in a small space when not inflated, since inflatables depend on the presence of a gas to maintain their size, function fulfillment per mass used compared with non-inflatable strategies is a key advantage. Stadium cushions, impact guards, vehicle wheel inner tubes, emergency air bags, inflation occurs through several strategies, pumps, ram-air, billowing, and suction. Although the term inflatable can refer to any type of inflatable object, a distinction is made between high-pressure and low-pressure inflatables. In a high-pressure inflatable, structural limbs like pillars and arches are built out of a tough, flexible material and these limbs hold up passive membranes. The space where the visitors or inhabitants stay is at atmospheric pressure. For example, airplane emergency rafts are high-pressure inflatable structures, low-pressure inflatables, on the other hand, are slightly pressurized environments completely held up by internal pressure. In other words, the visitors or inhabitants experience a higher than normal pressure. Low-pressure inflatables are usually built of lighter materials, both types of inflatables are somewhat susceptible to high winds. A recent inflatable, built for architectural and design experimentation, is the CICCIO module, a balloon is an inflatable flexible bag filled with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. Modern balloons can be made from such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric. Some balloons are used for decorative purposes, while others are used for purposes such as meteorology, medical treatment, military defense. A balloons properties, including its low density and low cost, have led to a range of applications. The inventor of the balloon, was Michael Faraday in 1824. The growth in popularity of moonwalks has led to an inflatable rental industry which includes slides, obstacle courses, games. Inflatables are ideal for portable amusements because they are easy to transport, the name given to such structures varies. They have been marketed with such names as Bounce house, Moon Bounce, Astrojump, Moonwalk, Jolly Jump, Leaping Lodge, the term Bounce House came to popularity with the resurgence of hipster culture in New England. The term Jolly Jumps is often used to describe the inflatable playground structure in rural areas and some areas in the Western US, although they are often aimed at children, adult castles can be hired in the UK
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Beach
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A beach is a landform along a body of water. It usually consists of particles, which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles. The particles comprising a beach are occasionally biological in origin, such as shells or coralline algae. Some beaches have man-made infrastructure, such as posts, changing rooms. They may also have hospitality venues nearby, wild beaches, also known as undeveloped or undiscovered beaches, are not developed in this manner. Wild beaches can be valued for their beauty and preserved nature. Beaches typically occur in areas along the coast where wave or current action deposits, although the seashore is most commonly associated with the word beach, beaches are also found by lakes and alongside large rivers. Beach may refer to, small systems where rock material moves onshore, offshore, or alongshore by the forces of waves and currents, the former are described in detail below, the larger geological units are discussed elsewhere under bars. There are several parts to a beach that relate to the processes that form. The part mostly above water, and more or less influenced by the waves at some point in the tide, is termed the beach berm. The berm is the deposit of material comprising the active shoreline, the berm has a crest and a face — the latter being the slope leading down towards the water from the crest. At the very bottom of the face, there may be a trough, at some point the influence of the waves on the material comprising the beach stops, and if the particles are small enough, winds shape the feature. Where wind is the force distributing the grains inland, the deposit behind the beach becomes a dune and these geomorphic features compose what is called the beach profile. The beach profile changes seasonally due to the change in energy experienced during summer and winter months. In temperate areas where summer is characterised by calmer seas and longer periods between breaking wave crests, the profile is higher in summer. The gentle wave action during this season tends to transport sediment up the beach towards the berm where it is deposited, onshore winds carry it further inland forming and enhancing dunes. Conversely, the profile is lower in the storm season due to the increased wave energy. The removal of sediment from the berm and dune thus decreases the beach profile
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Annette Funicello
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Annette Joanne Funicello was an American actress and singer. Funicello began her career as a child performer at the age of twelve. She rose to prominence as one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the original Mickey Mouse Club, in 1992, Funicello announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She died of complications from the disease on April 8,2013, Annette Joanne Funicello was born in Utica, New York, to Italian Americans Virginia Jeanne and Joseph Funicello. Her family moved to Southern California when she was four years old, Annette took dancing and music lessons as a child to overcome shyness. In 1955, the 12-year-old was discovered by Walt Disney when she performed as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake at a recital at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank. Disney cast her as one of the original Mouseketeers and she was the last to be selected, and one of the few cast-members to be personally selected by Walt Disney himself. She proved to be popular and by the end of the first season of The Mickey Mouse Club, she was receiving 6,000 letters a month. In addition to appearing in many Mouseketeer sketches and dance routines, in a hayride scene in the Annette serial, she performed the song that launched her singing career. The studio received so much mail about How Will I Know My Love, that Walt Disney issued it as a single, a proposed live-action feature Rainbow Road to Oz was to have starred some of the Mouseketeers, including Darlene Gillespie as Dorothy and Funicello as Ozma. Preview segments from the film aired on September 11,1957, by then, MGMs The Wizard of Oz had already been shown on CBS Television for the first time. Theories on why the film was abandoned include Disneys failure to develop a script. Disney ultimately replaced this project with a new adaptation of Babes in Toyland. After the Mickey Mouse Club, she remained under contract with Disney for a time, with roles in Zorro, Elfego Baca. For Zorro she played Anita Cabrillo in a storyline about a teen-aged girl arriving in Los Angeles to visit a father who does not seem to exist. This role was reportedly a birthday present from Walt Disney, Annette also co-starred in Disney-produced movies such as The Shaggy Dog, Babes in Toyland, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, and The Monkeys Uncle. The Monkeys Uncle featured Annette singing with The Beach Boys and they were released by Disneys Buena Vista label. Annette also recorded Its Really Love in 1959, a reworking of an earlier Paul Anka song called Toot Sweet, Paul Anka was noted to have a crush on her, however, Walt Disney overprotected Annette, which broke Pauls heart
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Frankie Avalon
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Frankie Avalon is an Italian-American actor, singer, and former teen idol. He is a figure in mid 20th century entertainment and an icon in the history of American rock. Avalon was born in Philadelphia, the son of Mary and Nicholas Avallone, in December 1952, he made his American network television debut playing the trumpet in the Honeymooners Christmas Party sketch on The Jackie Gleason Show. Two singles showcasing Avalons trumpet playing were issued on RCA Victors X sublabel in 1954 and his trumpet playing was also featured on some of his LP songs as well. As a teenager he played with Bobby Rydell in Rocco and the Saints, in 1959, Venus and Why went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Why was the last #1 of the 1950s, Avalon had 31 charted U. S. Billboard singles from 1958 to late 1962, including Just Ask Your Heart, Ill Wait for You, Bobby Sox to Stockings, and A Boy Without a Girl. Most of his hits were written and/or produced by Bob Marcucci and he was less popular in the U. K. but did still manage four chart hits with Why, Ginger Bread, Venus and Dont Throw Away All Those Teardrops. Avalons first film was an appearance in Jamboree, playing a trumpet. In the late 1950s, teen idols were often given roles in movies supporting older male stars in order to attract a younger audience, Avalon was a favourite of the daughter of Alan Ladd who recommended him to co-star with her father in the Western Guns of the Timberland. Avalon sings two songs, The Faithful Kind and Gee Whiz Whillikins Golly Gee, both were released as singles, rushes for Timberland were seen by John Wayne, who was looking for a young actor to play the role of Smitty in his passion project, The Alamo. Avalon was cast in his second dramatic part, after making the film Wayne told the press Were not cutting one bit of any scene in which Frankie appears. I believe he is the finest young talent Ive seen in a long time, mr Wayne said I was natural as far as acting goes, said Avalon. He added, My ambition when I was ten years old was to have my own band like Harry James. I never expected anything like this, id like to be identified as a singer, dancer and actor. I dont want to be just one thing, I like to appeal to teenagers and adults, he said in 1960. Avalon was now in demand as an actor, for Irwin Allen he had a small role and sang the title role in the science fiction adventure film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, a solid hit. He had a role in a comedy, Sail a Crooked Ship. Avalon was teamed with Ray Milland in the fiction film. Samuel Z. Arkoff of AIP said Avalon and Milland were teamed together because both have particular types of followers and the combination adds up to an attraction
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Beach Party
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Beach Party is a 1963 American film which was the first of seven beach party films from American International Pictures aimed at a teen audience. This film is credited with creating the beach party film genre. An anthropologist, Professor Robert Orville Sutwell is secretly studying the wild mating habits of Southern California teenagers who hang out at the beach and use strange surfing jargon. After he temporarily paralyzes Eric Von Zipper, the leader of the outlaw motorcycle club. Her surfing boyfriend Frankie becomes jealous and begins flirting with Ava, meanwhile, Sutwells assistant Marianne further develops her crush on the Professor. Von Zipper and his plot to bring down Sutwell, only to be thwarted in the end by the surfing teenagers. In the summer of 1962 Samuel Arkoff and Jim Nicholson were watching films in Italy with a view to purchasing some for release in the US and they saw one about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young woman who spends all her time at a beach resort. They did not like the movie but were attracted by the setting, the film was announced in July 1962. It was part of AIPs policy of mass entertainment on a frankly escapist level, rusoffs script was apparently more in line with AIPs traditional fare of children getting in trouble with their parents. It was shown to William Asher who agreed to make the movie if it more of a musical comedy about teenagers having a good time. Arkoff and Nicholson agreed so Asher rewrote the script with Robert Dillon and he was asked not to take credit by Samuel Arkoff who told them that Lou Rusoff was dying of brain cancer. Asher agreed and Rusoff has sole credit, he died in June 1963, Annette Funicello was always first choice for the female lead, although Asher says they were worried because she was under contract to Walt Disney, We had thirty pages of material. Not having all the material, he was concerned about Annettes image, I told him that there wouldnt be anything that would offend, that it wasnt that type of a picture. They were a little wary because it was AIP, Arkoff says that AIP tried to get Fabian Forte to play opposite her but he was under contract to 20th Century Fox so Frankie Avalon was cast instead. In July 1962 it was announced Avalon would play the lead with Funicello probably appearing alongside him, Avalon had made Panic in the Year Zero for AIP and was friendly with Lou Rousoff. He says they would talk about doing a picture about young people and it was about young guys on a beach with their girls, Avalon says. The next thing I knew, they cast this girl on loan from Disney called Annette Funicello, I had worked with Bill when he was doing a lot of specials for television. We talked about the project, and sooner or later we were on the set doing it, john Ashley had made a number of movies for American International and was cast to play Avalons best friend
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Muscle Beach Party
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Muscle Beach Party is the second of seven beach party films produced by American International Pictures. It stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and was directed by William Asher, dick Dale and the Del-Tones and Stevie Wonder appear in musical numbers, the latter aged thirteen and making his film debut, billed as Little Stevie Wonder. All the while, a bored Italian Countess is trying to steal Frankie from Dee Dee and, much to everyones surprise, shes going to turn him into a teen idol, not unlike Frankie Avalons real-life persona. Fortunately, due to some razzing from his former surfing buddies, matts, Frankie sees the error of his ways and goes back to his American beach bunny, Dee Dee. Lisa, Jack Fannys assistant Amadee Chabot, flo, Jack Fannys assistant Peter Lorre. Mr. Strangdour Funicello reprises her character from Beach Party, although in this film she is referred to as Dee Dee, john Ashleys character, previously called Ken, is now known as Johnny. Lembeck as von Zipper also appears in a cameo in Dr. Goldfoot, lembeck also appeared in Fireball 500, another Avalon-Funicello vehicle, as an entirely different character. Peter Lorre appears briefly near the end of the film and there is a notice explaining that he appear in the next installment of the series. Lorre died in March 1964, thus, this was his appearance in the series. Before production producer Martin Ransohoff announced he was going to make a film called Muscle Beach based on Ira Wallachs satirical novel and this was eventually made as Dont Make Waves. A 141-page paperback adaptation of the screenplay, written by Elsie Lee, was published prior to the release of the film by Lancer Books, in two separate sequences, the latter version of these names is seen printed on their shirts. Larry Scott, who played Rock, was known in the bodybuilding world at the time and became the first Mr. Olympia. Due to his preference for a piece of gym equipment commonly known as the Preacher Bench, gene Shuey who played Riff, and Chester Yorton who played Hulk, were also well known in the bodybuilding circuit. Peter Lupus was also a champion himself, holding the titles of Mr. Indianapolis, Mr. Indiana, Mr. Hercules. He is best known as Willy Armitage, the strong, mostly silent, the swimsuits were designed by Rose Marie Reid, Buddy Hacketts clothes were from Mr. Guy of Los Angeles, and the hat that Deadhead wears was designed by Ed Big Daddy Roth. The surfboards used in the film were by Phil of Downey, California - aka Phil Sauers, Sauers was also the stunt coordinator for another beach party film that used his surfboards, Columbia Pictures Ride the Wild Surf, which was released later the same year. Sauers was even portrayed in film as a character by Mark LaBuse. The globe telephone cover on Mr. Strangdours desk is the one in Norma Desmonds home in the film Sunset Blvd
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Beach Blanket Bingo
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Beach Blanket Bingo is an American International Pictures beach party film, released in 1965 and was directed by William Asher. It is the fifth, and also best-known, film in the party film series. The film starred Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and also featured Paul Lynde, Don Rickles, Linda Evanss singing voice was dubbed by Jackie Ward. A singer, Sugar Kane, is unwittingly being used for publicity stunts for her latest album by her agent, for example, faking a skydiving stunt, meanwhile, Frankie, takes up skydiving at Bonnies prompting, she secretly wants to make her boyfriend Steve jealous. This, of course, prompts Dee Dee to also try free-falling, eric Von Zipper and his Malibu Rat Pack bikers also show up, with Von Zipper falling madly in love with Sugar Kane. To top all this, Bonehead falls in love with a mermaid, eventually, Von Zipper puts the snatch on Sugar Kane. The film takes a The Perils of Pauline-like twist, with the evil South Dakota Slim kidnapping Sugar, cast notes Beach Blanket Bingo was Frankie Avalons last starring role in the beach party films. He appears for only a few minutes in the film, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. John Ashley, who played Ken in Beach Party, and Johnny in both Muscle Beach Party and Bikini Beach, returns in this film as Steve, playing opposite his real-life wife Deborah Walley. Rat Pack leader Harvey Lembeck is given screen time than ever before in this third film to feature his character. He even gets to sing his own song titled Follow Your Leader, the part of Sugar Kane, played by Linda Evans, was originally intended for Nancy Sinatra. Donna Michelle, who portrays Animal, was Playboy magazines Playmate of the Year for 1964, bobbi Shaw, again is playing her ya, ya Swedish bombshell part. Though this was Rickles fourth film in the series, its the one in which he was allowed to be himself in one scene. He did a little of his act and insulted the cast members, notably asking why Avalon. Elsa Lanchester was originally announced for a role off the back of her performance in Pajama Party. Deleted sequences and songs After the sequence wherein Frankie sings “These Are The Good Times”, Dee Dee leaves the beach club and sings “I’ll Never Change Him” by herself at the beach house. Then, as seen in the print, the two couples arrive together at the beach club as the Hondells are performing “The Cycle Set. ”Movie tie-in Dell Comics published a 12 cent comic book version of Beach Blanket Bingo in conjunction with the movies release. The score for this film, like the four preceding it, was composed by Les Baxter
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is a 1965 Pathécolor beach party film from American International Pictures. The sixth entry in a series, the movie features Mickey Rooney, Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy. The film features brief, uncredited appearances by Frankie Avalon and includes Buster Keaton in one of his last roles, Frankie goes to Tahiti on Naval Reserve duty. While cavorting with local girls, Frankie realizes that Dee Dee might be disloyal to him, when Frankie seeks help from a witch doctor, the witch doctor sends a sea beauty, Cassandra, to lure Ricky, an advertising exec, away from Dee Dee. Upon Cassandras arrival, the beach turns upside down, as all the fall for her, an executive wants to make her a model. Tommy Kirk was originally announced as the lead but shortly before filming he was arrested for possession of marijuana. He was dropped from the movie and was replaced by Dwayne Hickman, Mickey Rooney agreed to play a supporting role at $5,000 for one weeks work in order to pay off some tax debts. Filming started in April 1965 and took 15 days, Annette Funicello was pregnant during shooting and was shot mostly wearing blousy tunics or with a prop in front of her. The film features the big screen appearance by The Kingsmen. Elizabeth Montgomery made an appearance as Bwanas daughter who is known as The Witches Witch at the end of the film. Montgomery appeared in a parody of the character she played in Bewitched, which was directed by her then-husband, William Asher. The opening credits were done using clay animation done by Art Clokey, variety called it a lightweight affair lacking the breeziness and substance of earlier entries. The critic from the Los Angeles Times called the movie a breezy number, the New York Times said it was the answer to a morons prayer. How To Stuff A Wild Bikini, the soundtrack for the film, was released in 1965, most of the songs are performed by various cast members, with two numbers by The Kingsmen. The album was released in mono and stereo versions, with the latter being very scarce. The stereo release was reissued on CD by Real Gone Music in July,2014, all songs written by Guy Hemric & Jerry Styner except Give Her Lovin by Lynn Easton. Songs are in different order from the movie. Producer, American International Publisher, DiJon Music Liner notes, Joe Bogart & Frank Costa In 2001, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini was released by MGM on Region 1 DVD
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Plastic
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Plastic is a material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and can be molded into solid objects. Plastics are typically organic polymers of high mass, but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic, most commonly derived from petrochemicals, due to their relatively low cost, ease of manufacture, versatility, and imperviousness to water, plastics are used in an enormous and expanding range of products, from paper clips to spaceships. They have already displaced many traditional materials, such as wood, stone, horn and bone, leather, paper, metal, glass, and ceramic, in most of their former uses. In developed countries, about a third of plastic is used in packaging, other uses include automobiles, furniture, and toys. In the developing world, the ratios may be different - for example, the worlds first fully synthetic plastic was bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland who coined the term plastics. Toward the end of the century, one approach to this problem was met with wide efforts toward recycling, the word plastic is derived from the Greek πλαστικός meaning capable of being shaped or molded, from πλαστός meaning molded. The common word plastic should not be confused with the technical adjective plastic, used for insulating parts in electrical fixtures, paper laminated products, thermally insulation foams. Problems include the probability of moldings naturally being dark colors, One of the most expensive commercial polymers. It forms the basis of artistic and commercial acrylic paints when suspended in water with the use of other agents, polytetrafluoroethylene – Heat-resistant, low-friction coatings, used in things like non-stick surfaces for frying pans, plumbers tape and water slides. It is more known as Teflon. Urea-formaldehyde – One of the aminoplasts and used as an alternative to phenolics. Used as an adhesive and electrical switch housings. Early plastics were bio-derived materials such as egg and blood proteins, in 1600 BC, Mesoamericans used natural rubber for balls, bands, and figurines. Treated cattle horns were used as windows for lanterns in the Middle Ages, materials that mimicked the properties of horns were developed by treating milk-proteins with lye. In the 1800s, as industrial chemistry developed during the Industrial Revolution, the development of plastics also accelerated with Charles Goodyears discovery of vulcanization to thermoset materials derived from natural rubber. Parkesine is considered the first man-made plastic, the plastic material was patented by Alexander Parkes, In Birmingham, UK in 1856. It was unveiled at the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London, parkesine won a bronze medal at the 1862 Worlds fair in London
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