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Coney Island

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  • "Presents history of New York's Coney Island from mid-1800's to its demise after World War II. Features rare archival photographs and newsreel footage."
  • ""Weaving rare archival photographs and dazzling newsreel footage with on-screen interviews, this documentary discusses the history and significance of Coney Island from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's and its three great amusement parks, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, and Dreamland.""
  • "Documents the history of."@en
  • "Discusses the history and significance of Coney Island."@en
  • "The birthplace of the hot dog and the roller coaster, Coney Island was the Disneyland of its day. Follow the metamorphosis of Coney Island in this fascinating excursion into our past."
  • "In scale, in variety, in sheer inventiveness, Coney Island was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and eventually, everyone came to see it. At the turn of the century, Coney Island exploded in a forest of glittering electric towers and a riot of rides, restaurants, recreated disasters, freak shows, and historical displays when three vast amusement parks -- Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland -- were built. Indicative of its overwhelming popularity, on a single day in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney Island. A showcase for the wonders of the machine age, Coney Island was an extraordinary amusement empire that astonished, delighted, and shocked the nation -- and took Americans from the Victorian age into the modern world."@en
  • "A discussion of the history and significance of Coney Island from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's and its three great amusement parks, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, and Dreamland, through archival film, on-screen interviews, and photographs."@en
  • "A discussion of the history and significance of Coney Island from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's and its three great amusement parks, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, and Dreamland, through archival film, on-screen interviews, and photographs."
  • "Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amusement park, by night, an electric "Eden"."@en
  • "Discusses the history and significance of Coney Island. Taking advantage of the wealth of images that emerged from the happy coincidence of Coney Island's growth and the rise of the movie industry in NYC, Coney Island captures the energy and the excitement that attracted millions the "the electric Eden.""
  • "Through archival film, on-screen interviews, and photographs, this documentary discusses the history and significance of Coney Island from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's and its three great amusement parks, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, and Dreamland."
  • "Through archival film, on-screen interviews, and photographs, this documentary discusses the history and significance of Coney Island from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's and its three great amusement parks, Steeplechase Park, Luna Park, and Dreamland."@en
  • "Coney Island presents the colourful history of America's greatest seaside resort, from the early years when great hotels dominated the beach, to the rise of Coney's three monumental amusement parks and its more recent incarnation as a honky-tonk amusement strip fronting a seasonally populous beach. Taking advantage of a wealth of images that emerged from the happy coincidence of Coney Island's growth with the rise of the movie industry in New York, Coney Island captures the energy and excitement that attracted millions to the ëlectric Eden.""@en
  • "Variously called "Sodom by the sea" and "The Electric Eden," Coney Island was a vast playground of light and color that delighted, and sometimes appalled, its throngs of visitors. In 1895, a spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn was miraculously metamorphosed into an extravagant world of amusement - a safety valve for the teeming metropolis and an experiment in egalitarian enjoyment that would transport America from the Victorian Age into the modern world. The hot dog and the roller coaster were invented here. Three extraordinary amusement parks (Luna Park, Steeplechase Park and Dreamland) featured mechanical horses, an Infant Incubator for premature babies, a Trip to the Moon, the largest herd of show elephants in the world, and Liliputia, a miniature town inhabited by three hundred little people. This comprehensive documentary tells Coney Island's story from its emergence in the mid-1800's as America's premiere recreation area through the glorious heyday of the parks to its demise after World War II. Incorporating rare archival photographs and newsreel footage, the film includes re-enactments of the Boer War, the burning of Dreamland in 1907, and the electrocution of an elephant. It captures the invention and spirit of a new age with Coney Island as "the unofficial capital of the new mass culture.""
  • "Uses archival films, photos and recollections to tell the story of New York's remarkable carnival area."@en

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  • "History"
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  • "Historical television programs"
  • "non fiction"
  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
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  • "Television programs"@en
  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en
  • "Nonfiction television programs"
  • "Documentary"@en

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  • "Coney Island"
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  • "American experience (Émission de télévision)"

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