This is a song from Lou Reed's album Coney Island baby enjoy...
You know, man, when I was a young man in high school
You believe in or not I wanted to play football for the coach
And all those older guys
They said he was mean and cruel, but you know
Wanted to play football for the coach
They said I was to little too light weight to play line-b...
Coney Island, "the place where merriment is king!"
Take a trip back in time 50 years before the Mermaid Parade.
See masses of old school New Yorkers beat the heat by hitting the beach.
See Side Shows! Carnies! Freaks! Thrill rides! Includes the original Coney Island Hot Dog, the Bathing Girl Review, and people getting sick on rides.
Not to ment...
Coney Island Beach and Amusement Park 1940.
Video begins with the song CONEY ISLAND
sung in Yiddish and English by the BARRY
SISTERS. Then it continues to show the
amusement rides and a beauty contest.
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Autor: cifilmman
Duracion: 19 Min 54 Seg
Tags: Coney Island
Añadido: 24 de Agosto de 2006
An impressionistic view of a day in the life of Coney Island from the desertion in the early morning to the hysteria at midnight. It can be purchased at http://www.coneyisland.com in the giftshop section or if you're visiting Coney Island buy it at the Coney Island Museum or Sideshow.
Musical Documentary about Coney Island
Beach and amusement park around 1940.
The Barry Sisters sing CONEY ISLAND in
YIDDISH/ENGLISH. This is an abridged version
of the documentary.
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Canadian Band Coney Hatch's music video for the song ' First Time For Everything'
The New York Pin-Up Photography Meetup Group takes our first field trip, and we go to Coney Island. It was incredible!
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Dandy Amber Marie
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New York's Coney Island is one of the Big Apple's most visited attractions. Its beach, boardwalk and amusement park have been attracting visitors for more than a century. But its largest theme park -- Astroland -- is set to close at the end of the summer season to make way for a $250 million re-development project.
All the fun of the fair: Coney I...
Official video for Good Old War - Coney Island
Directed by Behn Fannin
October 2007
Coney Island, Brooklyn, was once billed at the world's greatest amusement park. In its heyday, it entertained millions of New Yorkers. But now its future is in doubt as developers move in.
From its popular 'freak show' to its clackety rollercoaster and Ferris wheel, Coney Island harks back to a different era. "It invented a lot of wha...
When Thor Equities, an infamous real-estate company, threatens to build condominiums on Coney Island's core amusements, Amos Wengler, the troubadour, must keep the spirit of Coney Island alive with a song before all the memories fade forever. The life, spirit and essence of Coney Island explode on the screen as the film explores the inner-dynamics ...
The two hundred dollar debate.
From the 1973 movie "Paper Moon" by
Peter Bogdanovich.
Famed New York amusement park Coney Island faces an uncertain future due to commercial and residential development in its surrounding area. This video won Best Documentary short at this year's Webby Awards.
great performance. play it loud and watch it to the end.
Music Video for
Coney Island, Death Cab for Cutie
St.Joseph Michigan
Winter
Crazy Thing Inc. CTI.
Join me in the first car of the Cyclone (at least until my camera falls out of my hand).
A memoir of one man's child hood growing up near Coney Island.
A self-made music video comprised of archival footage of Coney Island. The music is performed by Tom Waits & written by Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan (from Waits' album "Blood Money").
© Stephen Cousins, 2006
A little video I put together for one of my favorite Death Cab songs.
Enjoy and let me know your thoughts.
This footage is from Coney Island in the 1940s.
(4 votos)
Autor: dutchmazz
Duracion: 8 Min 42 Seg
Tags: Coney Island
Añadido: 15 de Diciembre de 2006
A FOX Movietone film from 1930
Note: Opening shots feature (In order) Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan, Washington Square Park and Central park.
The young ladies from Miss Knapp's Select School have an outing at Coney Island, NY in 1905. Transferred from a 35mm ptint. Footage from this subject may be licensed from www.globalimageworks.com
Billy Ocean returns for his first U.S. concert in 18 years. Air Supply headlines Seaside Summer Concert Series
A KinetOscope Video "Welcome To Thorasick Park"
presented by Kinetic Carnival - the Coney Island blog
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Imagine the world of Coney Island destroyed by demolition,leaving it a ruined oasis for years to come. That world may just be what you'd see when you arrive...."Welcome To Thorasick Park"
With the big Coney Island deve...
The book "CONEY ISLAND before the last days..."
is available on http://www.ReginesBookstore.com
Coney Island as we know it is going to disapear, but some of the big rides, like Astroland, Cyclone, Wonder Wheel... will stay. All the small rides will be soon replaced by Disney's condos. Here a slideshow side-show tribute to Coney Island...
Coney Is...
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Autor: pi4dom
Duracion: 2 Min 42 Seg
Tags: Doowop
Añadido: 20 de Febrero de 2008
The Excellents - Coney Island Baby
Stephon Marbury Talks About Coney Island
primitive video. no sound. i would like to have a theater pipe organ soundtrack, but i don't have a theater pipe organ. in the future i will flip the right two frames of the first shot, so that the ferris wheel is symetrical with the horizon/axis in the center.
This is a newsreel from 1940. It can be purchased at http://www.coneyisland.com in the giftshop section or if you're visiting Coney Island buy it at the Coney Island Museum or Sideshow.
June 1st, 2007 visit to Coney Island following an article in the free local newspaper (AM New York) reporting that it was closing down -- with Maria Micheles and Peter Dizozza.
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Edit of May 17th, 2008 for the Surrealist Movie Night at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center premiering the "Brave Destiny" documentar...