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30-493: Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation in Santa Catalina Island, California . His widowed daughter, Jennifer Nelson, helps by donning a mermaid costume and swimming underneath his boat for the passengers' amusement. Jennifer meets Bruce Templeton when his fishing hook accidentally snags her costume. He reels in the bottom half, leaving Jennifer floating in the water bottomless. She later has

60-524: A CIA agent making sure the GISMO project is securely handled. When left alone in a room, Julius starts searching for information regarding GISMO. He photographs a cryptic note written by Bruce while brainstorming ideas about how to win Jennifer's affection. Julius transfers the photos to his handler. Bruce drives Jennifer to Catalina. His remote-controlled boat malfunctions, throwing Bruce out and landing in

90-413: A visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. The gag may involve a physical impossibility or an unexpected occurrence. The humor is caused by alternative interpretations of the goings-on. Visual gags are used in magic, plays, and acting on television or movies. The most common type of visual gag is based on multiple interpretations of

120-450: A blow with a bedside lamp by neighbor Mabel Fenimore. Jennifer and Bruce later have a honeymoon and ride the boat, which again malfunctions and leaves them in the parking lot on Catalina. Pearce and Tobias play an inquisitive wife and her disinterested husband, in roles not unlike the ones they played at the time in the television series Bewitched . The film was also released three months after Pearce's death. Robert Vaughn , famous at

150-545: A chase scene involving a runaway remote-controlled speedboat; Day accidentally falling into a zero-gravity chamber; and a slapstick sequence involving DeLuise as an inept electrician, which closely resembles Tashlin's frequent collaborations with Jerry Lewis . The film's score was composed by Frank DeVol and includes selections from Beethoven's " Symphony No. 5 in C minor ", Mendelssohn's " Wedding March in C major ", " Aloha 'Oe " (written by Queen Liliuokalani ), and Goldsmith 's "Theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. " Day sings

180-489: A classic American sight gag. The castaways were trying to contact civilization with a radio . In the episode, Skipper can recall only how he converted the radio into a transmitter in World War II when he was sleepwalking . After Skipper was unsuccessful, Gilligan got it to work by pounding on the radio; he used it to briefly contact a pilot flying overhead. Gilligan retrieved Skipper and demonstrated how he pounded on

210-416: A note in the office explaining that old documents should be burned so that they cannot be stolen; and she uses her shortwave antenna to communicate with Axel. Bruce begins to suspect that Jennifer is a spy. Air Force General Wallace Bleecker later arrives to watch over the GISMO project. Julius is confronted by his handler for only providing useless or publicly known information and is pressured into spying at

240-413: A parking lot with Jennifer. Bruce and Jennifer later spend an evening with Axel and his wife. Bruce is summoned to a meeting with Hill, security guard Homer Cripps and PR executive Zack Molloy. Hill reveals that secret information is leaking, e.g. the note that Julius photographed. Cripps is suspicious of Jennifer because of things he noticed about her: She repeatedly calls the same number every day, counts

270-409: A party which will be held by Bruce the next day. Cripps, meanwhile, spies on Jennifer, overhearing her talking to Axel and misunderstanding her end of the conversation as more proof of her involvement in espionage. At the party, Jennifer declares her love for Bruce. They plan to spend the night together, but Bruce is again called away to a meeting with Hill, Cripps, Molloy and Bleecker. While picking up

300-650: A run-in with Bruce at her new place of employment, an aerospace research company in Long Beach , where she works in public relations. Bruce's company created the GISMO , a gravitation control device which the U.S. Air Force plans to put into orbit in weeks and whose secret formula is sought after by the Soviet Union . Bruce hires Jennifer for to write his life story, while he works on GISMO. At his home, she meets electronics technician Julius Pritter and Edgar Hill,

330-412: A series of events. This type is used in the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps . Lead actor Robert Donat was kidnapping actress Madeleine Carroll and they were handcuffed. When they checked into an inn, the innkeeper assumed that they were passionate lovers because of the handcuffs. The film used dialogue that could be interpreted both ways. Another visual gag is a switched image, often at

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360-491: A shortened version of "Soft as the Starlight" (written by Joe Lubin and Jerome Howard), which she previously sang in its entirety on the 1957 album Day by Night . The song "The Glass Bottom Boat" is a rearrangement of "Soft as the Starlight" with completely different lyrics and is heard twice in the film: over the opening credits, sung by Day, and again as source music sung by Day, Taylor, Godfrey, and Fraser. Day also sings

390-485: A single verse from her signature song, " Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) " (written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans). Dick Martin sings a brief a cappella rendition of " Be My Love " (written by Sammy Cahn and Nicholas Brodszky ). The film was an attempt to appeal both to Day's traditional fans and to a younger audience. It was a success financially, earning $ 4,320,000 in North American rentals by

420-508: Is similar to that achieved by a diving mask , while the passengers are able to stay dry and out of the water. Glass-bottom boats are used for giving tours, as they are usually designed to allow the maximum number of tourists to view out the glass bottom . Glass-bottom boats are in use in many seaside tourist destinations as well as lake towns. Typical tours in these boats include views of underwater flora and fauna, reefs , shipwrecks , and other underwater sights. The glass-bottom boat

450-493: The Marx Brothers often used visual humour because the technology used to record voices in film (and play it back in a synchronized presentation) did not yet exist. Often the differences between people are part of the comic duos, especially thin and fat actors are used such as Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy . The New York Times cites the fourth Gilligan's Island episode, "Goodnight, Sweet Skipper", as

480-614: The Catalina harbor in 2008. It is currently drydocked in a private part of the island. The mermaid costume worn by Doris Day in the opening scene is now on display at the Catalina Casino and can be viewed on the Casino tour. The film stands apart from Day's other 1960s comedies due to animator-turned-director Tashlin's signature penchant for elaborate, cartoon-like gags and humor. This includes Taylor's futuristic robotic kitchen;

510-507: The Music Hall yesterday, and promptly sank. However, the picture is not without a certain historical interest. Miss Day,… seems now to recognize the existence of time… she is cast as a sweet widow, for no particular purpose, it seems, except to explain why such a lovely thing would be single in the summertime of her years. … Unfortunately, Mr. Freeman's screenplay is predictable when it shows any inner logic, and simply absurd when it doesn't…

540-602: The Oscar-Winning cartoon The Dot and the Line . Glass-bottom boat A glass-bottom boat is a boat with sections of glass, panoramic bottom glass or other suitable transparent material, below the waterline allowing passengers to observe the underwater environment from within the boat. The view through the glass bottom is better than simply looking into the water from above, because one does not have to look through optically erratic surface disturbances. The effect

570-505: The beginning of a film. A subsequent view of the scene shows something not viewed before. Switched movement may be the gag, such as Charlie Chaplin in The Pawnshop . Chaplin fights with his coworker and aims to punch at him once. Their boss walks in mid-swing and Chaplin changes the motion to act like he was dropping to his knees to scrub the floor. Noel Carroll established the most influential taxonomy of sight gags, breaking down

600-608: The cast does include some of Hollywood's best farceurs, among them John McGiver, Paul Lynde and Edward Andrews. The best of the lot, however, is a newcomer, Dom De Luise, …The picture's nicest inspiration may be the line, heard early, which explains Miss Day's marital status. Her husband, it's reported, was lost in a diving bell off the Bahamas. Just what he was doing there is left to our speculation. Could he really have been trying to get away from Miss Day? It's almost too terrifying — too anti-American—to contemplate.” On Rotten Tomatoes ,

630-407: The closet. She is freed by a hidden Hill, who is actually a spy. He stole the formula and put it in Jennifer's purse to smuggle it out of the house. Returning home, she is confronted by Julius. Then Hill arrives, draws a gun, and requests the formula. Julius and Jennifer fight him off, and she flees while Bruce, Cripps, Bleecker, and Molloy, who realized the truth, race to save her. Hill is stopped by

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660-579: The end of 1966. It drew 21,752 admissions in France. In his June 10, 1966 review in The New York Times , Vincent Canby laid the blame at the feet of Tashlin: “… one of the few Hollywood directors to pursue the slapstick muse, (he) may some day make a really funny film, full of outrageous sight gags, mistaken identities and lunatic chases. In the meantime, you can chalk up as another frantic failure "The Glass Bottom Boat," (which) chugged into

690-430: The film holds a critical approval of 57%, based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. Day followed up with Caprice (1967), a comedy-thriller more completely in the spy spoof genre, again with Tashlin directing, but it was a critical and commercial failure. The DVD of The Glass Bottom Boat (released in 2005) includes three vintage featurettes ( Catalina Island , Every Girl's Dream , and NASA ), as well as

720-496: The humor in their films on visual gags, even to the point of using no or minimal dialogue. Visual gags began in live theater. The first known use of a visual gag in a film was in the Lumière brothers ' 1895 short, L'Arroseur Arrosé ("The Waterer Watered"), in which a gardener watering his plants becomes the subject of a boy's prank. An early pioneer in visual gags was Georges Méliès . The filmmaker experimented with techniques in

750-524: The phone to call Vladimir again, she overhears their discussion and learns that they suspect her of wrongdoing. Bruce defends her and believes in her innocence, remarking that she is not intelligent enough to be a spy. Furious, Jennifer starts pretending to be a spy. She arranges for Molloy and Bleecker to have an embarrassing tete-a-tete by promising to meet both at the same time in the guest room. She ties up Cripps, when she sees him tailing her. After noticing Jennifer's deeds, Bruce gets angry and locks her up in

780-407: The rings and then hangs up with the words "that's enough for now, Vladimir;" she burns papers alone at night in the office; and she has a shortwave antenna installed in her home. There are innocent explanations for all of these things, which none of the people there know about: Vladimir is her dog, who gets his exercise by running through the house barking whenever he hears the phone ring; Jennifer read

810-477: The then-new film media creating techniques to trick viewers. Vaudeville actors often used gags in their routines. A classic vaudeville visual gag was for two actors to mirror each other's actions around a prop. Visual gags were continued into silent films and are considered a hallmark of the genre. In silent films, the actors in the mirror bit performed in silence with no music playing. Comedians including Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton , Harold Lloyd and

840-458: The time for playing Napoleon Solo in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , makes a very brief non-speaking appearance as a sight gag ; the theme from his TV series is heard when he is seen onscreen. Shooting partly took place on Catalina Island from September 13 to 19, 1965. It was Rod Taylor's second film with Doris Day following Do Not Disturb . The Nautilus boat used in the film sank in

870-490: The varieties into six types, two of which are enumerated below. Mutual Interference: The audience is fully aware of the on-screen situation, but a character comically misunderstands Mimed Metaphor: A variety of virtual simile an object may be treated as if it is a different object or be used in an unconventional way, such as acting like a doughnut is a barbell or using a tuba as an umbrella holder. There are numerous examples in cinema history of directors who based most of

900-473: Was invented in 1878 by two men, Hullam Jones and Philip Morrell, in Marion County, Florida . Jones outfitted a dugout canoe with a glass viewing box at the bottom, which allowed tourists to view the clear waters of Silver Springs, Florida . Eventually, the spring was purchased by Col. W.M. Davidson and Carl Ray, who developed a gasoline-powered glass-bottom boat in 1924. Visual gag In comedy,

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