CONEY ISLAND (AMERICAN EXPERIENCE)

Details

• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Crime, Documentary, War
• Plot: An 'Electric Eden' - 'fabulous beyond conceiving' - 'ineffably beautiful' - 'Sodom by the Sea.' To the millions who poured into the mesmerizing seaside amusement empire as the twentieth century dawned, Coney Island was all this and more. The birthplace of the hot dog and the roller coaster - and the most dazzling laboratory of mass culture the world has ever seen - Coney Island and its three extraordinary amusement parks, Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland, delighted visitors with the largest herd of show elephants in the world, a spectacular trip to the moon, an infant incubator, and Lilliputia, a miniature town inhabited by 300 midgets. This elegant and absorbing documentary film chronicles the greatest amusement empire the world has ever seen from its emergence in the mid-1800s through its demise after World War II.
• Cast: Philip Bosco, Andrei Codrescu, Vincent Gardenia, Judd Hirsch, Nathan Lane, Al Lewis, John Mahoney, Jerry Orbach, George Plimpton, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach, Ric Burns, Richard Snow, Buddy Squires
• Director: Ric Burns
• Runtime: 1:10
• Company: WGBH Boston, PBS Home Video
• Media Format: Series