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Title American Experience - Coney Island

Publication Info. PBS, 1991.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kanopy Streaming Video  Streaming Video    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time 011052
Description two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr carrier
Note In Process Record.
Title from title frames.
Film
Event Originally produced by PBS in 1991.
Summary "It is blatant, it is cheap, it is the apotheosis of the ridiculous. But it is something more; it is like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park; it is a national playground, and not to have seen it is not to have seen your own country," said Reginald Wright Kauffman in 1909 of Coney Island, the tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn that, at the turn of the century, became the most extravagant playground in the country and one of the most modern places on earth.. In scale, in variety, in sheer inventiveness, Coney Island was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and sooner or later, everyone came to see it. "Coney," one man said, "is the most bewilderingly up-to-date place of amusement in the world." On a single day in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney Island..
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Documentary-style films.
History, Modern.
Indexed Term North American Studies
Genre/Form North American Studies
Documentary films
Added Author PBS (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 1204929 Kanopy

 
    
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