Coney Island
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Coney Island
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The work Coney Island represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- Coney Island
- Statement of responsibility
- 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
- Subject
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- Amusement parks
- Amusement parks -- New York (State) | New York
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History
- DVD-Video discs
- Documentary
- Documentary television programs
- History
- Leisure -- United States -- History
- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (State) -- New York | Coney Island
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Amusement parks
- Amusement parks -- History
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- 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
- Date time place
- Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American Experience on February 4, 1991
- Dewey number
- 791/.06/8
- Intended audience
- MPAA Rating: Not rated
- Language note
- In English; closed-captioned
- LC call number
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- GV1853.3.N49
- F129.C75
- LC item number
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- C6649 1991
- C65 1991dvd
- PerformerNote
- 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
- Runtime
- 60
- Series statement
- American experience
- Target audience
- general
- Technique
- live action
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