Coney Island, New York(1903)

Time to get back to directing traffic tomorrow-but first...(spins dial on Time Machine). Ah, salt air and sizzling food and loud rides-nothing like Coney Island! I think i'll follow that friendly couple, they look like capable tour guides-oh, YIKES! (grabs First Aid Kit)....

In early 1903, the Edison Film company decided to film a ten minute travelogue in order to promote tourism, and handed the reins over to the celebrated early director Edwin S. Porter (of The Great Train Robbery fame)-who decided to add a bit of zest to the proceedings by hiring well-known husband and wife vaudeville performers Rube and Mandy to play some fish-out-of-water tourists. Even without the two comedians the feature would be utterly enchanting as the camera takes the audience through rides, amusements, animal acts and demonstrations-but adding the two clumsy but earnest fun-goers gives the camera a welcome focus point to stage the crowded boardwalk around, a decent moving POV to bring the beaches, rides and amazing architecture around and IMHO adds a nice humanist touch to the tourist promotional...

This early newsreel found a home in the Framepool archives, where it remained in an excellent state of preservation until found by media maven Guy Jones, who used a Neural Network AI to:
-eliminate Artifacting and clean the medium
-correct for the speed of modern players and
-add an amazing period soundtrack to truly enhance the Coney Island experience!

I lift my glass of strawberry lemonade to Guy Jones for his hard work in releasing this restored feature back into the world...B&W, Soundtrack.