Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
Series |
American experience. |
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American experience.
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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.
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Amusement parks -- History.
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Amusement parks -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
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Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
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Leisure -- United States -- History.
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Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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DVD-Video discs.
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Added Author |
Burns, Ric. Director. Producer.
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Squires, Buddy. Producer.
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Snow, Richard, 1947- Screenwriter.
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Bosco, Philip. Narrator.
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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WGBH Educational Foundation.
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
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PBS Home Video.
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Added Title |
American experience (Television program)
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ISBN |
1415702268 |
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9781415702260 |
Standard No. |
841887050562 |
Music No. |
705056 PBS Home Video |
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CONY601 PBS Home Video |
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