"Coney+island"
The Coney Island Bikers
In this picture the pretty bathing girls are riding their wheels along the hard sand of the beach. One girl who is a novice is learning to ride, and her efforts to maintain an upright position are very amusing.
Leap Frog Railway, Coney Island
The film shows an unusual type of railroad car designed to go over or under an oncoming car instead of around it, as conventional railroad cars must do. Each car not only runs on tracks but also has a set of tracks over its top, permitting an oncoming car to go over it. The camera was placed close to a platform on which the passenger-laden train ra..
Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island)
A fire fighting demonstration in Luna Park, Coney Island. on August 15, 1904.
John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island
John embarks on a trip to Coney Island for a day of fun and happiness. Things don't quite work out as planned.
Scene on Surf Ave., Coney Island
A short look at Surf Ave., Coney Island.
Boxing Horses Luna Park, Coney Island
Inside a boxing ring are two horses. Attendants put white bag-like objects on their forefeet. At a signal from the ringmaster, the two horses stand on their hind legs and start boxing.
One Wall: Kings of Coney Island
Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal - one player describes it as 'like boxing, except with a ball.' For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. One Wall follows the most talented athletes you've never heard..
Mystic Shriners' Day, Dreamland, Coney Island
A parade of Mystic Shriners in ritual costumes and traditional hats, carrying a banner reading "Mecca"; some walk, some are mounted on horses, a few ride on camels and on one elephant. Many men and women in street dress walk casually in the parade. Single camera position from high angle.
The Coney Island Beach Patrol
Two small boys with policemen's hats and nightsticks are struggling with another small boy. The object of their struggle seems to be to arrest him. Approaching the camera from a distance are two men in bathing suits, pretending they are horses, and pulling what is supposed to be a patrol cart. The small culpit is put in the wagon and taken back to ..
Swimming Pool at Coney Island
The camera was positioned on the edge of a large public swimming pool. Many children jump in the water from the edge of the pool opposite the camera and swim toward the camera.
[Coney Island]
Unsplit 8mm film by Bob Parent.
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
The first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase...
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Coney Island, U.S.A.
A day in the life of the famous Coney Island Amusement Park in Brooklyn, NY.
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby Live in Jersey
Lou Reed was wise to chronicle a concert by his early-'80s band, featuring lead guitarist Robert Quine and bassist Fernando Saunders. Reed had used them on his trilogy of strong albums -- The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, and New Sensations -- released between 1982 and 1984. This 52-minute video, shot at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, in 1984, ..
The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Christopher Felver's enormously engaging documentary is a serious and powerful portrait of San Francisco's legendary poet, painter and City Lights publisher. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been a vital creative force in the American literary scene since the 1950's when he arrived in San Francisco and began to write his infamous poems, including A Coney ..
Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island
Often discussed as an urban legend or a failed architectural project, Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island redresses the erasure around Riley’s completed amusement park for the Black Residents in Harlem and the Bronx in 1924 on Hart Island. Working across archives, contemporary footage of Hart Island, and speculative interviews with key Blac..
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society
Documentation of The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society from 1926 and 1934
A Swimming Race at Coney Island
The camera was positioned on a seashore. In the distance, there is a small sailboat on which several people are standing. Two of the passengers on the small boat dive into the water and begin to swim toward the camera. Spectators in the water cheer the two swimmers. They reach the shore, walk out of the water and out of camera range. Each is wearin..
Parade of Mystic Shriners, Luna Park, Coney Island
A convention of the fraternal order of Shriners was the subject of this film, photographed at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York. During the film, members of the organization can be seen passing the camera position on camels or horses, in horse-drawn vehicles, or walking. All members of the parading group were attired in some sort of distinguishin..
