Coney Island

Resource Information

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

Contributor

• PBS Home Video
• Bosco, Philip
• KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
• Squires, Buddy
• Burns, Ric
• Snow, Richard, 1947-
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• WGBH Educational Foundation
• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Screenwriter

• Snow, Richard, 1947-

Director

• Burns, Ric

Narrator

• Bosco, Philip

Producer

• Burns, Ric
• Squires, Buddy

Subject

• 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

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• History
• Documentary television programs
• Documentary
• DVD-Video discs

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

Member of

• American experience (Television program)
• American experience

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

• GV1853.3.N49
• F129.C75

LC item number

• 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