See the Shoot- the- Chutes ride, and as a extra for all you lucky lookers: Thrill as a man takes the ride on one ski. With great camera positioning for best effect.
Color: No
Sound: No

Film from the heyday of the great east coast amusement land.

Color: No
Sound: Yes

Follow a country couple "Rube and Mandy" as they visit Coney Island. Watch as the enjoy the rope bridge,"Down and Out", riding the bulls and the steeplechase. Catching up with Rube and Mandy later at the rattan slide, we see them doing stunts, shooting the chutes, riding the boats in the old mill,and riding on the miniature railway, and what would a trip to Coney Island be without a visit to, Professor Wormwood's Monkey theatre, a family favorite. Again we find the pair on the Bowery, striking the punching machine, with the fortune tellers, and finally winding up with the Coney Dog vendor. Excellent views of Coney Island and Luna Park.

Color: No
Sound: No

Several children enjoy the beach, wading in the water and holding hands, as the adults keep an eye on them. See the future dreams of one boy to become a sailor, he watches the ship in the distance as he holds his own toy boat.

Trailer for the 1943 film

sound, color

With commentary by Henry Morgan, this "Day in the Life" of Coney Island is a real treat. Follow the story from the early morning deserted lanes to the pandemonium and hysteria of the midnight crowds.

Sound, Color

See the springtime at Coney Island, along with some scenes of a Greenwich village street are show, and a snowstorm that rocks the village, in this amateur film.

Silent, Color

Collection of sequences and images from the Ford Collection. With footage from US history, cultural, industrial, and daily life between 1915 and 1930. Highlighted in this film are Coney Island and some early manufacturing footage. Also the ever increasing use and need, in American life, for the automobile.

Sound, B&W