Coney Island at Night (1905)

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  • čas přidán 14. 08. 2016
  • Time exposure shows us Coney Island at night, from Luna Park to Dreamland. Panning left, brilliant lights come into view, defining a long, narrow strip of rides and attractions. We're up, looking out and down. One ride spins. The sign "Luna Park" comes into view. The pan continues, marking the distance to Dreamland, a larger area with fewer lights: the Steeple Chase and a Ferris wheel are near the back. Then the camera at eye level takes us to close-ups of buildings in Luna Park. Rides spin, pavilions beckon. The camera plans slowly right. It picks one tall structure and pans down and up, ending with a shot of an empty sky.
    Directed by Edwin S. Porter with music by Clark Wilson.
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Komentáře • 61

  • @olivedarb03
    @olivedarb03 Před 3 lety +24

    How remarkable and amazing this must have been at the time....the electric light just recently been invented !

  • @Ryan-on5on
    @Ryan-on5on Před 3 lety +20

    Just imagine that when these three groundbreakingly illuminated parks were open a mere 30% or less of American households were wired with electric lights. For many "rube" visitors from the gas-lit countryside and foreign immigrants a night at Dreamland or Luna Park must have been an extremely surreal and breathtaking experience, akin to Dorothy entering the Technicolor world of Oz after being blown away from her sepia-toned Kansas farmstead. It really is hard for us 21st century denizens to comprehend that there was a time in the not too distant past where electric light was an urban novelty only enjoyed by those could afford to wire and hook up their private residences to a local generating plant.

    • @BennyboyTruth
      @BennyboyTruth Před 2 lety

      They were clearly using Nikola Tesla's long-lost (hidden) free energy technology in 1905, before two deliberately orchestrated world wars ensured that it was destroyed and all but forgotten.

  • @owellafehr5191
    @owellafehr5191 Před 4 lety +22

    So magical! I wish I could have gone there!

  • @TriangleFilms
    @TriangleFilms Před 3 lety +11

    That is some incredible footage!

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 Před rokem +4

    My grandparents were born in the early 1890's. Lucky them

  • @owellafehr5191
    @owellafehr5191 Před 4 lety +35

    There's something both whimsical and yet slightly creepy about this. Anyone else feel the same way?

    • @bighuge1060
      @bighuge1060 Před 3 lety +4

      There's a very Carnival of Souls vibe about it.

    • @sherleenadeboggins1454
      @sherleenadeboggins1454 Před 3 lety +6

      I don't believe those were regular incandescent bulbs.

    • @rustykuntz94
      @rustykuntz94 Před 3 lety +1

      Same here 100%! Haunting

    • @kieranm3957
      @kieranm3957 Před 2 lety +8

      @@sherleenadeboggins1454 and they weren’t wired either... we’re talking 10MW of power with incandescent bulbs. Widespread electrification and 3phase ac power didn’t occur until 1920’s.

    • @BennyboyTruth
      @BennyboyTruth Před 2 lety +6

      @@kieranm3957 Absolutely. This is pure Nikola Tesla technology without a doubt. There are old photos of identical tech being used to illuminate the Worlds Fairs by night.

  • @survivalcraftstudio
    @survivalcraftstudio Před 2 lety +3

    My question is how did you find this, because this is a fine work of art that needs to be heard to the world and beyond!

  • @Jazzymama8703
    @Jazzymama8703 Před 5 lety +4

    Nice that the current Luna Park uses the same motif of the past.

  • @jeromechristensen275
    @jeromechristensen275 Před 3 lety +7

    Edison never missed a trick But this advertisement for electric lights surpasses anything else he attempted.

    • @BennyboyTruth
      @BennyboyTruth Před 2 lety +1

      Edison was an dick (Family Guy even joked about this!). Nikola Tesla was and always will be the only true technological genius and the greatest REAL scientist to ever live.

    • @sabot4g3
      @sabot4g3 Před 2 lety +1

      @@BennyboyTruth i dont think nether of them existed

    • @TartariaLives
      @TartariaLives Před 2 lety

      @@BennyboyTruth He was a Tartarian Refugee, born on the border of Tartaria,10+ years after it was wiped out and yes he was trying to pass along their tech...

  • @valeriaalanis2071
    @valeriaalanis2071 Před 2 lety +1

    so much light in such a dark place...

  • @user-pn1nz4ml3j
    @user-pn1nz4ml3j Před 2 lety +1

    Wow…It's so beautiful!

  • @sabrinasjourney
    @sabrinasjourney Před 6 lety +3

    So beautiful!

  • @lady-hightower4698
    @lady-hightower4698 Před 2 lety +1

    Mister Y welcomes you to Phantasma!

  • @villega21altos
    @villega21altos Před 5 lety +13

    I would like some day to put colors on it,
    and restore it, they are jewels of the past

  • @davidshepherdgrossman
    @davidshepherdgrossman Před 5 lety +1

    Wow! Thanks for the share!

  • @marioandrikopoulos2158
    @marioandrikopoulos2158 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow! Fantastic 👍

  • @Mitzi73
    @Mitzi73 Před 2 lety +1

    Magical!

  • @farmyardflavours
    @farmyardflavours Před 5 lety

    Awesome, awesome, awesome .. !!

  • @1952lunacat
    @1952lunacat Před 7 lety +5

    Love it

  • @stormgirl09
    @stormgirl09 Před 3 lety +10

    why does super old school Coney Island look more like Disneyland than modern Coney Island does...I even read about how some parts about Dreamland and it seemed to resemble a primitive Disney World! looking at the pics of Coney Island todays it looks like your average sea side park. so in a way Coney Island was ahead of its time but than kind of down graded it seems... 🤷‍♀️

    • @voyager14
      @voyager14 Před 2 lety +1

      Search ‘the lost history of flat earth by Ewaranon’ you can ignore the flat earth stuff if you want but just watch the first couple parts of it.

    • @BennyboyTruth
      @BennyboyTruth Před 2 lety

      @@voyager14 but the "flat earth stuff" is completely relevant to how the technology actually worked. Nikola Tesla knew for a fact that we don't live on some random spinning ball hurtling through an infinite space vacuum at unimaginable speeds in multiple directions 😜 If anyone still thinks that geocentricism is just a ridiculous concept reserved for crackpot nutjobs, i'd suggest checking out some of the interviews that Dave 'DITRH' Weiss has done with die-hard believers of fundamentally-flawed globe theory.

  • @marioandrikopoulos2158

    Wonderful👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @croiners4166
    @croiners4166 Před 5 lety

    Cool!

  • @peterbaxter2913
    @peterbaxter2913 Před 6 lety +6

    Wonderful - but why did they choose an organist with two left hands?

    • @tahirmahmood7098
      @tahirmahmood7098 Před 6 lety +2

      Peter Baxter a pianist with two left feet is more like it ... !

  • @VqBryan
    @VqBryan Před 3 lety +6

    How they do that in 1905

    • @voyager14
      @voyager14 Před 2 lety +5

      Search ‘the lost history of flat earth by Ewaranon’ you can ignore the flat earth stuff if you want but just watch the first couple parts of it.

    • @ZORANSLIDER
      @ZORANSLIDER Před 2 lety +6

      Hydro Electric hiden technologie .. from the hiden old world 🤨

    • @BennyboyTruth
      @BennyboyTruth Před 2 lety +1

      @@voyager14 but the "flat earth stuff" is completely relevant to how the technology actually worked. Nikola Tesla knew for a fact that we don't live on some random spinning ball hurtling through an infinite space vacuum at unimaginable speeds in multiple directions 😜 If anyone still thinks that geocentricism is just a ridiculous concept reserved for crackpot nutjobs, i'd suggest checking out some of the interviews that Dave 'DITRH' Weiss has done with die-hard believers of fundamentally-flawed globe theory.

    • @voyager14
      @voyager14 Před 2 lety +6

      @@BennyboyTruth Oh believe me, I know. I just say that because I was skeptical of FE stuff but the Tartaria/antiquitech idea made me eager to learn more

    • @sabot4g3
      @sabot4g3 Před 2 lety +6

      shoutout ewaranon

  • @ronjames-music
    @ronjames-music Před 2 lety +1

    I wrote an acappella vocal arrangement about Dreamland. Perhaps you might be interested. It's here on CZcams at: Ron James Music

  • @johnfoy2840
    @johnfoy2840 Před 6 měsíci +1

    This is truly magnificent!! Thank you so much for sharing this. (btw I just posted this on CZcams's Awesome Coney Island Videos.....
    czcams.com/play/PLZY0gh4CnM6glItC0gJ3lbZ2xQJpVx0RU.html&si=HbO-kL4Za95MxMMs )

  • @thatssomething1
    @thatssomething1 Před 2 lety

    Nathan's wasn't around yet so no thanks to 1905 😆😉

  • @likedcommentsRdeleted
    @likedcommentsRdeleted Před 9 měsíci

    this was pretty cool, until they got their first electric bill....