July-August 1905 Thomas Edison Manufacturing co. Camera: Edwin S. Porter BOARDING SCHOOL GIRLS [0:15] Miss Knapp's young ladies from the Select School are taking a trip to Coney Island. Here they come out of their Posh Brooklyn Brownstone dorm. Miss Knapp looks like she runs a tight ship. She's hired a charabang to get them there. Who ever would have thought that people getting into a vehicle could be entertaining? Look at the size of that thing, not to mention those dresses! Its like the ever classic 'Clown Car' in reverse. I'll bet all of those open parasols put some serious drag on that car. [1:40] Ahh! Here we are.....Coney Island! Surf Avenue, the main strip. The girls depart the tank like embroidered paratroopers. DREAMLAND [2:35] OH! The sun and the salt air.....rented bathing suits, lots of sand, a sneaky prank, poor Miss Knapp! We should all get wet.....Hotcha! ''Sodom by the Sea!'' suddenly, another edit takes us to..... STEEPLECHASE PARK ''The Funny Place'' [4:05] Some girls go for an exotic ride on a genuine Arabian camel. There goes Miss Knapp, performing her dour duty. It's another bad edit and suddenly we're in William Reynolds's Dreamland. There's Henry Roltair's magnificent thirty foot tall bare breasted statue ''Creation'' which fronts the entrance to the show of the same name. The show consisted of moving multimedia dioramas presenting an edifying elocution of pertinent truth, ''morally instructive'' unlike the tawdry thrill ride ''Trip to the Moon <b>...</b>