Card stunt

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Stunts card is a sequence of planned coordinated actions performed by the audience, whose members raise a card that, in aggregate, creates a recognizable image. The images they create can vary and, through careful planning, the same card can create a number of different images by changing the way cardholders are systematically handled. Although card action is now done at various events ranging from sports to political rallies, card action is closely related to American soccer, particularly college football, as well as soccer (football) where it can form part of a tifo. The North Korean bulk game Arirang Festival, however, was the first to extend the action of the card into an art form, using a flip-book card to produce a very long long animated clock sequence.

Video Card stunt

By country

Mexico

At the Mexican Heroic Military Academy, action cards take place on numerous occasions, especially on September 13, the anniversary of the Battle of Chapultepec, where a program is made to honor this great battle.

North Korea

North Korea's annual Arirang Festival, also known as Mass Games, in Pyongyang takes advantage of choreography and action cards to create images sweeping across the stadium. The festival is renowned for the use of this technique as part of the iconographic art of regime propaganda.

Thai

Acrobatic cards (Thai: They are mainly associated with Jaturamitr Samakkee and Chula-Thammasat Traditional Football Matches, but are also used in most school and university sporting events where performances by sitting audiences often play an important part in the competition.In addition to colored cards plain, other objects such as umbrellas, flashlights, and reflective surfaces are also used, and special plates with multiple colored card book tiles are used to create a detailed aggregate image.

The origins of such appearances in Thailand can be traced back to Assumption College, a member of Jaturamitr, where, in 1942, with the instruction of Cherd Sudara, a teacher at school, uniformed students differed amongst the audience set to form the initial school. It evolves into dynamic messages with the physical movements of the crowd and then covers and exposes color-specific clothing. The traditional football game Chula-Thammasat adopted a card action in 1957; in the following years, cardboard cards became the mainstream media for stunts. As part of a larger event, performances by Chulalongkorn University students were featured during the opening ceremony of the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, and eight thousand students from Jaturamitr schools performed during the 1999 FESPIC Olympics in Bangkok.

United States

A 2006 Super Bowl ad by Budweiser, titled "The Wave", featured a fictitious card action using computer animation. The crowd at the Rose Bowl do a card action showing the beer bottle opened and poured around the stadium into the glass and then consumed one gulp at a time. The crowd finished with "AHHHH" collectively.

In February 2006, Gillette's company sponsored "The Largest Stunt Card in the World" on the Daytona 500 NASCAR with over 118,000 fans going to participate. During the song of the US Anthem, fans lifted cards that form patriotic designs consisting of stars and stripes. After the anthem, fans flipped the card to display the "Gillette Fusion" logo. Action cards produced by JacobDavis Productions.

Maps Card stunt

Other shows

Academy of college

The first card action was performed by students at the University of California, Berkeley ("Cal") during the 1910 Big Game against rival Stanford University, and consisted of two total actions: a Stanford Ax and a big blue "C" with a white background. While card action is closely related to college football, this first example occurred at a rugby match because all major colleges and universities on the West Coast of the United States had briefly dropped football for the sake of rugby in the early 1910s. When the university switched back, the students brought the card stunts with them and at that time they became a national phenomenon associated with college football. While tradition has receded in many American colleges and universities, Cal retains its tradition through the UC Rally Committee.

"Block I", a cheering section of soccer students at the University of Illinois, also maintains the tradition by performing 12-picture, 12-figure cards during halftime every home soccer game.

The acrobatic cards have been the object of some famous college jokes, including the Great Rose Bowl Hoax and the Harvard-Yale Prank 2004.

Olympics

At the opening and closing ceremony of the Moscow Summer Olympics 1980 in Moscow at the Olympic Stadium (now Luzhniki Stadium), about 6,800 Soviet army cadets in front of the presidium created many images using this technique. The cadets are practicing for about six months to perfect their card formations. One of the most memorable was Misha with tears falling, during the closing ceremony of the event.

The opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum boasted the biggest single-card action at the time. 85,000 spectators found colored cards in their seats (predetermined by computers); and at one point of the ceremony, just before the various national delegates lined up, all 85,000 spectators lit their cards to form all the flags of the country in attendance. However, there is a question today whether 140 flags have occurred because only 87 sections at that time could really accommodate only 87 sections of the flag.

A similar action was attempted during the Vancouver 2010 Winter opening ceremony, which featured 82 vs. countries. Los Angeles allegedly 140 in-flash images, and 55,000 viewers in Vancouver vs. 85,000 cards ordered and used in 1984. The action in Vancouver was done in a dimly lit setting (again, as the national delegation began to line up), while LA performed in the vast sunshine.

At the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, a similar effect to the action of the card is achieved by installing a small panel with LED lights in addition to every spectator seat in the stadium, effectively turning the entire seating area into a large screen for spectators sitting on the opposite side. The show producer, rather than the audience, controls the light panel.

Card games involving large numbers of people have become standard parts of similar celebration events in countries such as North Korea.

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Fiction

In 1958, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke published "A Slight Case of Sunstroke" (also called "The Stroke of the Sun"), a short story where cruel card stunts were used to kill unpopular football referees. In his narrative, a large number of hostile audiences direct a reflective program to the unfortunate referee, who is attacked by hot prostration in the resulting solar furnace.

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See also

• Wave (viewer)
• Tifo
• Bulk games
• Jacob Davis Productions

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References

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External links

• The Great Rose Bowl Hoax (1961): Students from Caltech play a trick on the card stunt part of the University of Washington
• Media related to Card stunt in Wikimedia Commons

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