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Filmmaker: Ric Burns
VHS - $ 95.00
Price includes Public Performance License.
This elegant and absorbing documentary tells the story of Coney Island from its emergence in the mid-1800's as America's premier playground, through the glorious heyday of the parks, to its demise after World War II. Featuring rare archival photographs and dazzling newsreel footage, the film includes re-enactments of the Boer War, and the burning of Dreamland in 1907. It captures the invention and spirit of a new age, when Coney Island became "the unofficial capital of the new mass culture."

Running time: 60 min, Year released: 1991
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS
ISBN: 0-7806-3204-4
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

This title can also be found in: Americana, Amusement Parks, History, New York City, New York State, U.S. History, U.S.A.
 

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