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Title Coney Island / PBS ; directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Ric Burns and Buddy Squires ; written by Richard Snow ; produced for the American Experience ; a production of WGBH Boston, WNET/Thirteen, New York, and KCET, Los Angeles.

Publication Info. Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2006], c1991]
[©2006], c1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction DVD  DVD 974 CONEY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD, Nonfiction  DVD 974.723 CON    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD 974.7 CON    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Series American experience.
American experience.
System Details DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; full screen presentation.
Performer Narrated by Philip Bosco; commentators, Al Lewis, Elliot Willensky, Frederick Fried, Richard Snow; voices by Andrei Codrescu, Vincent Gardenia, Judd Hirsch, Nathan Lane, John Mahoney, Jerry Orbach, George Plimpton, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach.
Credits Edited by Paul Barnes ; cinematography, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore ; consultants, Marshall Berman, John Carlin, Frederick P. Fried, John Kasson, Jerome Liebling, John Manbeck, Sam Bass Warner, Steve Zeitlin ; music arranged and directed by Brian Keane.
Event Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American Experience on February 4, 1991.
Summary 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.
Audience MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Contents Introduction -- Sodom by the sea -- Escape from respectability -- City of Fire -- Luna Park -- Dreamland -- Perfecting the pleasure principle -- May 21, 1911: Dreamland burns -- Nickel empire -- Forever closed: But not forgotten -- Credits.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Language In English; closed-captioned.
Subject Amusement parks.
Amusement parks -- History.
Amusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Leisure -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD-Video discs.
Added Author Burns, Ric. Director. Producer.
Squires, Buddy. Producer.
Snow, Richard, 1947- Screenwriter.
Bosco, Philip. Narrator.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
WGBH Educational Foundation.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
PBS Home Video.
Added Title American experience (Television program)
ISBN 1415702268
9781415702260
Standard No. 841887050562
Music No. 705056 PBS Home Video
CONY601 PBS Home Video
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