Riverview Park Chicago DVD - Laugh Your Troubles Away! HARD to find!

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Laugh Your Troubles Away - The Complete History of Riverview Park
Latest Version - Over 1 Hour Long!!
If you're a Riverview Park fan - you simply
must
have this video! It's a complete update of the Riverview Park story incorporating the latest history, photographs, and motion picture finds on this historic amusement park.
Riverview Park was Chicago's largest and best-known amusement park. Although Riverview closed at the end of the 1967 season, it is still lovingly remembered by the citizens of Chicago.
LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY
traces the development and changes of the park, as seen through postcards, vintage ads, historic photographs taken by the official park photographers, and motion pictures.
The
LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY
documentary is the product of years of research by Derek Gee and personal experiences collected by collaborator Ralph Lopez, who worked at the park for 11 years and is a founding member of the National Amusement Park Historical Association. Ralph's vast knowledge of the park is blended with historical facts and photos from contemporary sources dating as early as 1879, including The Chicago Tribune, Billboard magazine for the amusement industry, and Riverview's own publicity photos. This unique mix makes
LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY
the most comprehensive and factual history of Riverview available today.
This PBS-style documentary is
NOT
the same as "Riverview, Kingdom of Magic" or "Riverview, Gone But Not Forgotten".  If you have those videos, you will  definitely want this much
improved
one.
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FOOTAGE OF THESE RIDES INCLUDED IN VIDEO:
Greyhound coaster, The Bobs, Comet coaster, Flying Turns, Fireball, Jetstream, Pair-O-Chutes,  Strat-O-Stat
Also includes rare newsreel footage of the 1932 Bug House fire and the only known color film of the park demolition.  Film footage is sourced from
35mm
, 16mm, Super-8 and 8mm format film stocks and was transferred professionally for premium quality.  Other competitors may boast about the quality of their sources, but this DVD has the REAL goods!
The DVD also includes a rare park radio advertisement and a sing-along of the 1911 park song, "Let's All Take A Trip Out To Riverview"!
You don't have to take our word for it.  Here's an independent review of our documentary by historian Adam Sandy:
Laugh Your Troubles Away: The Complete History of Riverview Park- Chicago, Illinois
I always thought it was odd that a park as famous as Riverview had some of the spottiest research done about it, both from the perspectives of film and print. For a long time Chuck Wlodawczyk's book "Riverview: Gone But Not Forgotten" was the only book on Riverview and his video by the same name & George Berbert and Clarence Hintze's video "Laugh Your Troubles Away: Riverview- Kingdom of Magic" were the secondary sources that focused exclusively on Riverview. While I enjoyed them (especially the latter's video tour of the park after it closed but before it was auctioned) all lacked a story. They seemed to be more amalgamations of facts and images rather than a history of the park. Luckily for us Derek Gee and Ralph Lopez came out with a companion set (video and book) on the park. Each are really the first in their respective mediums to tell the park's story- and what a wonderful one it is. There were many things that I enjoyed in this video, but I will just mention a few. The first thing that amazes me is that I can not only take a ride on the Bobs, but get to see the trains up close and as they fly through the course. If anything is engrained in my head as "stereotypical Riverview" it is that shot of the Bobs as it flies down a turn in front of the station's Grecian columns. I never realized that the jog from the station to the lift was so long on this ride! Another enjoyable coaster experience was the POV footage of the Flying Turns. I believe this was the first time I had received an on-ride perspective of the Bartlett-made rides and it was an eye-opener. For younger people like myself the concept of an urban park is much harder to grasp because there are less parks built within these environments today. I enjoyed the views of the park from the parachute drop as it not only let me appreciate the green canopy Riverview had, but also the factories and places of industry that surrounded the park. It helped put the park in a different perspective and allowed me to appreciate how Riverview was integrated with Chicago. Today it is easy to forget these parks were the fabric of the urban culture, not a half-hour past the suburbs on the interstate. For an independently made documentary the production was good and the inclusion of carousel music was a very nice touch. Overall I thought that this film, from the beginning of the Sharpshooters Park to the shots of it today, was well done and worth my money.
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This Full-Screen DVD is brand new, fresh off the production line.  It is
Professionally Duplicated
for
BEST
quality.  DVD is NTSC (North American & Japan TV format) and region code free.  I am the
ONLY
seller on Ebay authorized to sell this video.
Copies of the 1994 version turn up from time to time on Ebay, but these are either used or counterfeit. They are also only 37 minutes long. Please e-mail with any questions about the DVD
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