Pretpark Nederland

What made more money than the entire American movie industry through the 50s and 60s? Pinball. Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon. A product of the mechanical and electrical age, the American invention swept the world and defined cool. Now it is relegated to a nostalgic footnote deserving a better fate. Joining th...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Brett Sullivan

Cast

Roger Sharpe, Rick Stetta, Pat Lawlor

How to create the imagination of movement for fun parks is the theme of this documentary. Although engineers try and try to create machines that shake, tilt, turn, lift and drop people in a way that fools their senses, the real McCoy cannot be imitated: Roller Coasters just let you experience movement much, much more intense than every...

Runtime

40m

Director

Ben Stassen

Cast

Harry Shearer, Cassandra Peterson, Paul Harper

An afternoon in the biggest fair of Germany.

Runtime

45m

Director

Ulrich Seidl

Cast

Dorothea Spohler-Claussen

Dwarves Kingdom is a documentary film about a theme park featuring performances by little people with dwarfism who live in a fantasy recreation of a magical empire. Built by a wealthy Chinese businessman, this other-worldly kingdom, officially called World Ecological Garden of Butterfly and Little People Kingdom, is located in the moun...

Runtime

1h 16m

Director

Matthew Salton

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland--competed for the patronage of a half-million people. By day it was the world's most amazing amuseme...

Runtime

58m

Director

Ric Burns

Cast

Philip Bosco, Al Lewis, Vincent Gardenia