Coney Film Docs On DVD

Six historic Coney Island short subjects on one tape.

You can get these wonderful short films on DVD (high quality transfers direct from 16mm prints) with deep and richer colors than what you see through YouTube.com .

From Edison films of 1903 to 1954's "Coney Island USA." Some of the very best historic Coney stuff you'll ever see. A must for any Coney lover.

Coney Island Films Collection

Obtained through Coney Island U.S.A.'s Gift Shop
"Coney Island" (1939)
"Shorty at Coney Island" (1939)
"A Day's Outing" (1930)
"Coney Island USA" (1954)
"Edison Films" (1903-04)
Available in both DVD & VHS
a bargain for $25.00

Coney Banner Painter Marie Roberts Interview

Committed vegetarian and artist in residence of Coney Island U.S.A. and the Coney Island Circus Sideshow Marie Roberts. See the two part documentary short here.

Coney Island USA Banner painter Interview

Marie Roberts PART TWO

Coney Island USA Banner painter Interview

Coney's Film Festival's Promo for this year !

Coney Island Film Festival 2006 Promo

GET YOUR DOSE OF RARE CONEY FILM DOCS

Coney Island 1940

Gem of a film: 1952 Coney Island !

This was found on YouTube.com (posted by cifilmman) and it dates back to the early 50's - that's the time of the "Little Fugutive" See rare footage of Coney Island - most of it not seen in Rick Burn's 1991 "Coney Island" documentary on "The Ameircan Experience

UPDATE NOTE: THIS VIDEO'S EMBEDDING CAPABILITY HAS BEEN DISABLED. TO VIEW GO TO YOUTUBE HERE.

Coney Island USA 1952

Description:
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.

Posted by cifilmman [YouTube]

Sigmund Freud at Coney's DreamLand

"Freud in Coney Island" the latest book from authour Norman M. Klien takes its cue from that last bit of make-believe. Klein, who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts' School of Critical Studies, interweaves fiction with social criticism, reportage and confessional memoir, but it's fiction he seems to enjoy most — fiction of a loose and absurdist sort, separated from fact by the blurriest of boundaries. Sigmund Freud did visit Coney Island in 1909. That much is true, but we know next to nothing about his day at the beach, so Klein takes the opportunity to fill in the blanks. And who could resist the chance to write a sentence like this: "There is reason to believe that Freud walked into Dreamland, the last and most bourgeois of the three amusement parks in Coney Island"? Or to point out that to enter the park, the famed explorer of unconscious desire would have had to walk through a tunnel carved directly between the thighs of a sculpted 30-foot nude with breasts "larger than haystacks"?

What if Freud visited Coney Island? [Sun Sentinal]

Inside The Stomach of the Dragon: The Victory of the Entertainment Economy [Eyebeam Journal]

Freud in Coney Island And Other Tales (excerpt)
written by Norman M. Klein
published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions
104 pages, $12.95 paper back