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1. Yellow Submarine
   Unavailable to TV and video viewers for years, 1968's much-loved animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine is making its return with a limited theatrical run, soon to be followed by a high-profile video release. But 31 years, countless Beatles retrospectives, numerous advances in animation technology, seismic shifts in fashion, and tens of thousands of music videos later, how does Yellow Submarine hold up? Quite well, thankfully. After A Hard Day's Night and Help!, plans fell apart for a third live-action Beatles film, no doubt in part because the band was slowly starting to fall apart itself. But the idea of The Beatles has always been just as important as The Beatles as a tangible entity, and Yellow Submarine preserves that idea beautifully. Despite not featuring the members of The Beatles in the flesh, or even their speaking voices—or even, at times, convincing approximations of their speaking voices, particularly George Harrison's—Yellow Submarine features The Beatles the public embraced: fraternal, clever, innocent lads destined to save the world through music and love.
2. Yellow Submarine -- Albums
   Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated feature film based on the music of The Beatles. It is ... the title for the soundtrack album to the feature film, released as part of The Beatles' music catalogue. The film was directed by Canadian-born animation producer George Dunning, and produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate. The Beatles themselves appear only in the closing scene of the film.
3. Yellow Submarine -- Blue Meanies
   During the whole "Paul is Dead" rumormongering, Yellow Submarine was believed to be slang for a casket, and the sky of blue/sea of green meant blue sky, green grass. During the vocal part to make it sound like an active submarine, it was often believed John Lennon yelled "Paul is dead!"
4. Yellow Submarine -- John Lennon
   Yellow Submarine owes much of its charm to the screenplay's sparkling wit and self-deprecating sense of humor (the animated John Lennon, upon learning of Pepperland's most famous musical act, says "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? They couldn't be much with a name like that."). However, success can never be explained so easily. Yellow Submarine was a product of psychedelia and flower-power (Author Ken Kesey: "They say [Yellow Submarine] looks better when you're stoned. Of course, that's true of any movie..."), and it champions these concepts in a production that entertains viewers of all ages. But while that may explain why they film received overwhelmingly positive reviews at the time of its release, it can't account for the movie's continued popularity.
5. Yellow Submarine -- Songs
   Released at the height of the psychedelic pop culture period of the 1960s, the movie Yellow Submarine was a box-office hit, drawing in crowds both for its lush, wildly creative images, and its soundtrack of Beatles songs. The original story was written by Lee Minoff, based on the song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and the screenplay penned by four collaborators including Erich Segal. The recurring line "It's all in the mind" is taken from The Goon Show.
6. Yellow Submarine -- Music Ally
   Although the Yellow Submarine is a milestone in animation, little has been written about the people who actually created this classic. At the time of the film's release a lot of credit was given to producer Al Brodax who turned out to be an executive producer with King Features, the company that paid for the production. He shared writing credit with Lee Minoff, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal. The Beatles got music credit of course and Heinz Edelmann, a German speaking Yugoslavian or Czech graphic artist, was recognized as the film's talented designer.
7. Yellow Submarine -- Al Brodax
   Watching Yellow Submarine is like opening a time capsule in your living room, allowing fans of pop-culture an opportunity to study one of animation's crowning achievements. It's ... proof that, when handled with care, animation not only reproduces well on DVD, but it can boggle the mind with its clarity. Yellow Submarine is often silly, but it endears itself with the strength of its convictions. When the flower-power anthem "All You Need is Love" explodes from your speakers during the film's climax, you'll probably find yourself agreeing with the sentiment, if only for a few fleeting moments.
8. Submarine
   Submarine volcanoes are underwater fissures in the earth's surface from which magma can erupt. They estimated to account for 75% of annual magma output. The vast majority are located near areas of tectonic plate movement, known as mid-ocean ridges. Although most are located in the depths of oceans, some ... exist in shallow water, which can spew material into the air during an eruption. Hydrothermal vents, sites of abundant biological activity, are commonly found near submarine volcanoes.
9. Yellow
   Due to its heavy load of silt the Yellow River is a depositing stream, that is, it deposits part of its carried burden of soil in its bed in stretches where it is flowing slowly. These deposits elevate the riverbed which flows between natural levees in its lower reaches. Should a flood occur, the river may break out of the levees into the surrounding lower flood plain and adopt a new course. Historically this has occurred about once every hundred years. In modern times, considerable effort has been made to strengthen levees and control floods.
10. Submarine -- Submarines
    Submarine length is 18.45 meters and height 6 meters. It can take up to 44 passengers plus 2 crew members. They are built to take underwater pressure up to a depth of 75 meters, yet, they dive to 25 meters so passengers can enjoy watching the sea in daylight. It is ensured to stay till 72 hours continuously underwater.

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