Changes+in+20th+Century+Entertainment

//**Many changes were taking place in the early part of the 20th century in terms of entertainment. Pick one of the following topics to research a little more in depth. Your research must focus on the time period around 1900. Report what you find interesting in the wiki. Write in paragraph form and make sure you __cite your source(s__).**//


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 * Baseball
 * Coney Island (amusement park)
 * Department Stores (Sears, Montgomery Ward)
 * Motion picture (movies)


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Bri-- Coney Island.

Coney Island is a peninsula off of the southern part of Brooklyn. Coney Island is broken up into different neighborhoods, The private residental part, called Sea Gate is located at the top western part, Manhattan Beach is located at the far eastern edge, and in the middle it is the amusment park Coney Island and Brighton Beach. Coney Island, and has been the "playground of the world" and has been a large part in immigration and the lives of New Yorkers since the early 1800's. In 1897 George C. Tilyou opened Steeplechase Park, the signature ride there was a horse ride, it was wodden horses on a steel track and people could ride around the park on the horse track. In 1903 Fredrick Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy bought Sea Lion Park and opened Luna Park. This park had over 250,000 electric lights, noone had ever seen anything like this before. One visiter called it "an electric eden."

Another one of the parks that was created on Coney Island was Dreamland Park in 1904, but only lasted until 1911. During the Great Depression, Coney Island changed again. It because known as the "nickle empire," It was called that becasue it only took a nickle to get a subway ticket to get there, and also Coney Island became famous for it's five cent hot dogs. People still came to Coney Island, but alot of them just watched the rides, rather than getting on them. Changes in the economy and peoples intrests hurt Coney Island until about 1960, then it was alive with people once again.

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Ashley- Baseball

Baseball first started in the 1800's people used local rules and informal teams in this time period. The first professional Baseball league was established in 1871. It had been a good start for many people who liked to play Baseball. In 1876 the first major league had been brought up and established. In 1900 the rules of baseball had said that the person who throws the ball to the person batting which would be the pitcher had to win at least 15 games in order to qualify as the league leader. Knowing that the home plate went from a twelve-inch square to a five-sided figure that is 17" wide.

Then in 1901 people got into a little more depth of the rules. The first 2 fouls were considered strikes. Catcher cannot catch two strikes during a bounce. The infield fly rule is able to be used only if there are no outs as well as one out. In 1903 Game changed a little. If there had been only one umpire in the game at all he could take a location in the field wherever he had desired. American leagues had agreed that if there was not any foul ball caught on the strike it would be considered as out. Baseball back then had changed many times compared to now. But now its stayed the same for a while.

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__Motion Pictures__

Movies, when they first started out, had no sound. It was mostly just words like bang, pow, or boom that you would see on the screen. Photographing began to catch the interest of the world during the late 19th century. Many inventions had come out for shooting movies. One of the first though was a machine patented in the U.S. that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life". It was patented by William Lincoln in 1867. After this many other similar inventions were brought up. For instance Frenchman Lumiere invented a portable motion picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, which was three functions covered in one invention!

The earliest films were usually no longer than ten minutes. Now a days movies can last up to four hours, some even more than that. Simple actions were filmed at first, then everyday scenes. The camera was first used in a fixed position, and later it pivoted, or panned, and also moved toward and away from the subject. Now there are movies about everything, you name it, most likely there is a movie about it. It's weird and crazy to think that we started out from just pictures on a screen with words, than eventually to some noise and more movement, and now upgraded to things like 3-D and surround sound.

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