23-525: [REDACTED] Look up helter-skelter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Helter Skelter or Helter-Skelter may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Helter Skelter (1949 film) , a British romantic comedy film Helter Skelter (1976 film) , an American crime film Helter Skelter (2004 film) , an American crime film Helter Skelter (2012 film) ,
46-436: A television series broadcast by Epix Video games [ edit ] Helter Skelter, a race track in the video game R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 Helter Skelter, a character in the video game No More Heroes Helter Skelter, a weapon in the video game Final Fantasy XIII Other uses in arts and entertainment [ edit ] Helter Skelter (manga) , a manga series by Kyoko Okazaki Helter Skelter I ,
69-436: A television series broadcast by Epix Video games [ edit ] Helter Skelter, a race track in the video game R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 Helter Skelter, a character in the video game No More Heroes Helter Skelter, a weapon in the video game Final Fantasy XIII Other uses in arts and entertainment [ edit ] Helter Skelter (manga) , a manga series by Kyoko Okazaki Helter Skelter I ,
92-897: A 1968 song by the Beatles "Helter Skelter", a 1990 song by Meat Beat Manifesto "Helter Skelter", a 1997 song by Edge of Sanity from Infernal "Healter Skelter", a 2010 song by Shining from Blackjazz "Helter Skelter", a 2010 song by the Shapeshifters "Helter Skelter", a 2017 song by Tom Swoon and Maximals "Helter Skelter", a 2021 song by Bassjackers and Moti Television [ edit ] "Helter Skelter", an episode of Eureka Seven "Helter Skelter", an episode of Instant Star "Helter Skelter", an episode of Dexter "Helter Skelter", an episode of Terror in Resonance Helter Skelter: An American Myth ,
115-678: A 1968 song by the Beatles "Helter Skelter", a 1990 song by Meat Beat Manifesto "Helter Skelter", a 1997 song by Edge of Sanity from Infernal "Healter Skelter", a 2010 song by Shining from Blackjazz "Helter Skelter", a 2010 song by the Shapeshifters "Helter Skelter", a 2017 song by Tom Swoon and Maximals "Helter Skelter", a 2021 song by Bassjackers and Moti Television [ edit ] "Helter Skelter", an episode of Eureka Seven "Helter Skelter", an episode of Instant Star "Helter Skelter", an episode of Dexter "Helter Skelter", an episode of Terror in Resonance Helter Skelter: An American Myth ,
138-518: A 2007 painting by Mark Bradford Other uses [ edit ] Helter Skelter (rave music promoter) Helter skelter (ride) , an amusement ride Helter Skelter (scenario) , a Family Manson belief Helter Skelter Publishing , an English publisher and bookshop See also [ edit ] Helter Shelter (disambiguation) Helta Skelta , a 1993 album by Turbonegro Heltah Skeltah , an American hip hop duo Willy-nilly (idiom) , an English idiom and slang Topics referred to by
161-518: A 2007 painting by Mark Bradford Other uses [ edit ] Helter Skelter (rave music promoter) Helter skelter (ride) , an amusement ride Helter Skelter (scenario) , a Family Manson belief Helter Skelter Publishing , an English publisher and bookshop See also [ edit ] Helter Shelter (disambiguation) Helta Skelta , a 1993 album by Turbonegro Heltah Skeltah , an American hip hop duo Willy-nilly (idiom) , an English idiom and slang Topics referred to by
184-608: A British romantic comedy film Helter Skelter (1976 film) , an American crime film Helter Skelter (2004 film) , an American crime film Helter Skelter (2012 film) , a Japanese psychological horror film Literature [ edit ] "Helter Skelter", a 1731 poem by Jonathan Swift Helter Skelter (book) , a 1974 book by Vincent Bugliosi Music [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] Helter Skelter (Fred Frith and François-Michel Pesenti album) , 1992 Helter Skelter (The D.O.C. album) , 1996 Songs [ edit ] "Helter Skelter" (song) ,
207-426: A Japanese psychological horror film Literature [ edit ] "Helter Skelter", a 1731 poem by Jonathan Swift Helter Skelter (book) , a 1974 book by Vincent Bugliosi Music [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] Helter Skelter (Fred Frith and François-Michel Pesenti album) , 1992 Helter Skelter (The D.O.C. album) , 1996 Songs [ edit ] "Helter Skelter" (song) ,
230-447: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages helter-skelter (Redirected from Helter-skelter ) [REDACTED] Look up helter-skelter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Helter Skelter or Helter-Skelter may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Helter Skelter (1949 film) ,
253-416: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Helter skelter (ride) A helter skelter , or helter-skelter lighthouse, is an amusement ride resembling a lighthouse with a spiral shaped slide built around the tower. Typically, fairgoers climb up a flight of stairs inside the tower and slide down the spiral on the outside using a coir mat. The ride
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#1732801582351276-581: Is most prevalent in amusement parks and fairgrounds in the United Kingdom . The first known appearance of the helter skelter was at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1906, which survived for thirty years until 1935. However, the ride's development began around the turn of the 20th century, when a helter skelter was built on Great Yarmouth 's new Britannia Pier . The helter skelter was also present at Dreamland in Margate , Kent . This amusement park
299-409: The helter skelter is generally a wooden or aluminium construction, whereas the chute of the slide is usually made from laminated wood. Instead of climbing up a flight of stairs to reach the top of the slide, some helter skelters included an escalator-like lift that fairgoers were loaded onto, and this updated mechanism maintained technical consistency amongst the amusement park rides. This technology
322-572: The lighthouse theme, but instead featured a decorative slide around the tower, which was designed to look like a dragon, with the dragon's head at the bottom. The Hurry Skurry is another noteworthy variation of the helter-skelter. The Hurry Skurry included a slide which zigzagged down the structure rather than spiralling around it and examples existed at Crystal Palace in London , and on the Birnbeck Pier at Weston-super-Mare The Bowl Slide
345-594: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but were also popular on seafronts, piers and other convenient spots of land. Birnbeck Pier at Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset is one such example, with a helter skelter being one of its entertainment facilities in the twentieth century. The term ‘helter-skelter’ has origins stemming from the word ‘kelter’ or ‘kilter’, meaning working order or alignment. In reconstructed Anglo-French, this translates to ‘eschelture’, or "the state of being in military formation". ‘Kelter’
368-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Helter Skelter . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helter_Skelter&oldid=1245552325 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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414-596: The spiral slide. Variations on the lighthouse helter skelter include Thomas Warwick's slide at Cleethorpes in North East Lincolnshire , England, as well as Manchester White City's Dragon Slide . Rather than the traditional lighthouse tower, Thomas Warwick's slide was shaped like a castle tower with turrets at the top. It was built by Thomas Warwick, who also gave the town their first observation tower and subsequent swing ride. Manchester White City's Dragon Slide , also called The Holland Slide, kept
437-606: Was "using the symbol of a helter-skelter as a ride from the top to the bottom--the rise and fall of the Roman Empire--and this was the fall, the demise, the going down." Upon listening to the album, American criminal Charles Manson interpreted Helter Skelter as a call to violence, and so the song came to embody his Family's internal belief system, leading to their goal to incite an apocalyptic race war. In 1969, Manson and his followers murdered Sharon Tate and four others in her Los Angeles home of 10050 Cielo Drive , and
460-473: Was based on familiar transport and factory mechanisms such as electric winches, cogs, ratchets and hydraulic valves. Yet, the familiarity of these mechanisms was understood by fairgoers as modern in an amusement park context, which added to the novelty factor of the ride. Whilst the traditional British helter skelter resembled a lighthouse, many other variations of the helter skelter have different features and have adopted different themes, including variations on
483-707: Was introduced at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1911, and the popularity of this ride saw further development occur into the 1920s and 1930s, where examples of the slide surfaced at the Whitley Bay Spanish City in North Tyneside, the Kursaal at Southend-on-Sea , and Southport Pleasureland . The helter skelter was the subject and inspiration of the song of the same name by the Beatles from The White Album . Paul McCartney explained that he
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#1732801582351506-688: Was similar in appearance to Blackpool Pleasure Beach during its opening in 1920, which was marked by the opening of the Scenic Railway as a key attraction. In the 1920s, visitors at Dreamland would have experienced both more modern and permanent rides such as the House of Nonsense and the Tumble Bug , as well as traditional rides like the Helter Skelter. Fairground rides like the helter skelter appeared not only in amusement parks during
529-557: Was subsequently used to describe the correct configuration of the parts of artillery pieces. Nonetheless, the Latin preposition ‘oltre’, meaning "beyond" was added to ‘eschelture’. The resulting Middle English phrase, ‘helter-skelter’, was adapted from the Anglo-French and Latin terms based on the pattern of reduplicative compounds, with the resulting meaning being "out of formation" and "in disordered haste, confusedly". The tower on
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