Vernon Keenan (coaster designer)
Vernon Keenan was an American roller coaster designer most well known for his involvement with the' Cyclone at Coney Island.
Charles I. D. Looff
Charles I. D. Looff was a German master carver and builder of hand- carved carousels and amusement rides, who immigrated to the United States of America in 1870.
Looff built the first carousel at Coney Island in 1876.
During his lifetime, he built over 40 carousels, several amusements parks, numerous roller coasters and Ferris wheels, and built California's famous Santa Monica Pier.
He became famous for creating the unique Coney Island style of carousel carving.
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island was produced, directed, shot and edited by Edwin S. Porter Copyrighted on August 13, 1903, the 725 ft., 35mm film lasted roughly 10 minutes if projected at 20 frames per second.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Gone to Coney Island and Booming Business
Gone to Coney Island and Booming Business are two 1910 American silent short comedy productions by the Thanhouser Company.
Both were released together on a single film reel on July 5, 1910.
" Gone to Coney Island" is a comedy that features Coney Island, which the mere subject would make for a successful film.
" Booming Business" may have been the very type of slapstick comedy that Edwin Thanhouser specifically said the Thanhouser Company would not produce.
The productions of both films have no credits for the cast or crew, but possible candidates for these roles exist.
Reviews of the films favored" Gone to Coney Island", but some reviewers specifically refused to explain the plot because Coney Island subjects were deemed self- explanatory.
" Booming Business" received one detailed review in" The New York Dramatic Mirror" which was negative.
The films are presumed lost.
Edwin S. Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company.
Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include "Jack and the Beanstalk" (1902), "Life of an American Fireman" (1903), "The Great Train Robbery" (1903), "The Kleptomaniac" (1905), "Life of a Cowboy" (1906), "Rescued from an Eagle's Nest" (1908), and "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1913) .
Marcus Illions
Marcus Charles Illions( 1871–1949) was a master carver of wooden carousel horses and other figures at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City in the early 20th century.
" The New York Times" referred to him as" the Michelangelo of carousel carvers".
Illions was born in 1870 or 1871 in Lithuania, becoming a builder of circus wagons before emigrating to England, where he carved carousel horses.
An alternative account in an obituary states that he was actually born in England.
He came to America in 1888 where he carved for Charles I. D. Looff and William F. Mangels in Coney Island before starting his own company, M. C. Illions and Sons Carousell Works, in 1909.
His five children were all active in the business from very early ages, in roles that included carver and commercial artist.
At one time in the early 1900s, ten carousels carved by Illions operated in Coney Island.
Illions was an exponent of what has become known as the Coney Island style of carousel figure carving, which" is characterized by flamboyant horses, bedecked with jewels and gold and silver leaf".
By 1909, Illions' company produced" a new line of horses with explosive, flying manes and powerful, straining bodies, decked out with latticework harnesses and other virtuoso feats of carving".
A machine known as Feltman's Carousel is considered by one source to have been Illions' best work.
Though no longer intact, 24 of its horses were incorporated into the Flushing Meadows Carousel in 1964 and are still in use today.
The Great Depression of the 1930s decreased demand for amusement products and Illions experienced financial problems.
He died broke in 1949.
His legacy includes extant carousels across the United States which are listed here:
During the restoration of the B&B Carousell for its 2013 reopening on the Coney Island Boardwalk, it was discovered that one of the horses is in fact by Marcus Illions.
All of the other horses were executed in the early 1920s by another well- known Coney Island carver, Charles Carmel.
The Illions horse was one of a set of four executed in 1909 to commemorate the centennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and features colorful rhinestones and a relief of Lincoln's profile.
This is the only one of the set that can be ridden by the public today, as the other three are all in private collections.
The most recent prior owner of the B&B had used the Illions horse to replace one of the Carmel horses that an earlier owner had removed from the carousel.
Coney Island (1917 film)
Coney Island( also known as Fatty at Coney Island) is a 1917 American two- reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe" Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
A Coney Island Princess
A Coney Island Princess is a lost 1916 silent film comedy- drama directed by Dell Henderson and starring Irene Fenwick.
It is based on the play" Princess Zim- Zim" by Edward Sheldon.
This film marked Fenwick's debut for the Famous Players Film Company, and was partly filmed on location at Coney Island.

Question: What nationality is the director of film Rube And Mandy At Coney Island?
Answer: American