Film · Edison · 1905
Pass it on
Coney Island at Night
33Leave it.
It's the lights of Coney at night, a look with no story, and that is the point.
Take controlThis scores 33. Coney Island at Night cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
No plot, and I was glad of it. Porter photographs the electric lights of Coney Island so they glow. 1905. A house can watch it. The night is the subject. People keep hunting for a story in a reel that refused to have one, then sound disappointed, which is backwards.
I sat with the glow and let it be a look. Nobody is brave in it, nobody is married, nobody keeps a promise, because nobody is asked to. What you get is the park after dark, lit, and then it ends. A decent few minutes if the house is tired of chases. It does not pretend to be more than the lights.
Journal
Keep Coney Island at Night in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Living Off the Grid
45 instead of 33
Living Off the Grid is still a documentary film, and it scores 45 instead of 33. What you gain is courage: Staying out there takes nerve.
The eight
- 4Industry
The electric lights are the work on view, and no worker is a character.
- 1Household
No marriage, parent, or child; the night is the whole subject.
- 1Piety
A look at lights has nobody in it for a conscience to stop.
- 1Courage
Nobody risks a thing they would miss; the camera takes the glow.
- 3Republic
It records a public park at night and does not pretend to govern it.
- 5Temperance
The glow is the whole subject, and the reel ends instead of selling another.
- 6Truth
It promises Coney's lights at night and does not paste on a story.
- 5Stewardship
What is left is a record of the park's lights, and that is enough.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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