Coney Island
(DVD) 

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.

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.

Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series American Experience on February 4, 1991.

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.

MPAA Rating: Not rated.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; full screen presentation.

In English; closed-captioned.