“WHEN THE CENTURY WAS YOUNG“ EARLY 1900s CONEY ISLAND AMUSEMENT PARK KINETOSCOPE FILMS MD10034

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white silent film compiles early 1900’s Edison and Biograph Kinetoscope motion pictures of Coney Island, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The film features Thompson and Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park, Dundy’s Luna Park, Dreamland concessions and amusements, and Coney Island beach attractions. This retitled Blackhawk Films home distribution print was derived from a 1961 copy of 35mm paper positives preserved in the Library of Congress, originally dating from 1903-1905. A title card describes Coney Island as a “magic world of razzle-dazzle excitement” and invokes Charles Feltman, who “introduced the first hot dog at his Ocean Pavillion in 1874” (0:39). Titles continue, noting the Edison and Biograph companies that “cranked out” early motion pictures, and alluding to their using Kinetograph cameras for Kinetoscope exhibition (1:01). Another title e