The Teppes Machine Work Blog Journal

WORK BLOG JOURNAL: THE TEPPES MACHINE

Entry 1 Jan 12: Like the work journal I've kept for my play Fissures, I am now going to keep an ongoing work blog for my latest project. The Teppes Machine.

Entry 2 Feb 25: (Better late than never) I have finished the first five to six pages of twelve for a comic book sample script based on Star Gate SG1 and Star Gate Atlantis for Avatar Comics. I have tried to follow their submission guidelines to try to get a job writing for their specific movie and televsion show franchises that they own the comic book publishing rights. Eventually, I want to submit to them some creator owned ideas. If they like my work I hope they will allow me to finish this storyline that goes outside their current continuity. I estimate that the Teppes Machine storyline is approx a 10-15 issue arc. So assuming each issue runs around 20-25 pages, (more like 30 with room for advertisements) were talking about a 375-400 pages all together.

THE TEPPES' MACHINE

A

STAR GATE SG 1/ STAR GATE ATLANTIS CROSSOVER

WRITTEN

BY

Lee Gooden



PAGE 1. (6 panels)



PANEL 1.This panel takes up the majority of the top of the page, a square like panel that showcases the front of GENERAL JACK O'NEILL'S cabin in Minnesota. It is a beautiful day, the sun is high in a deep blue sky and the clouds are wavy that is almost an echo of the water and foam beneath it. JACK'S cabin is rustic, a wagon wheel at the end of the dirt and gravel driveway, a mailbox with a sign underneath that says, 'Gone Fishin'. Just imagine the perfect laid back get away.



PANEL 2.This panel is square and directly below PANEL1 to the left of the page. GENERAL JACK O'NEILL is out on a long dock of his pond. He is sitting in a rocking chair. He is dressed in fishing garb, including a fishing hat pulled down low with the works, hooks, lures, etc. A beer bottle is nestled between his legs. He is wearing kakis and red high top Converse canvas sneakers. A fishing vest fits neatly over a blue t-shirt with green letters that read 'Kiss Me I'm Irish.' Behind him is a long wooden wall that spans the length of the dock and the hill the cabin sits upon. Hanging on pegs is a long green pole net and miscellaneous fishing gear. To the right of his chair is large white first aid kit, emblazoned with a giant red cross is attached to the back wall (the first aid kit plays an important part in the story). A tackle box and fly tying kit sits at his feet.



PANEL 3: A square panel, we cut too

COL. SAMANTHA CARTER. Her beautiful face is upturned towards the sky. The sun plays light shadows on her countenance. Her hair is blonde and short like Madonna's from her True Blue album. Her eyes are closed and she has a slight relaxed smile; a smile that shows no teeth, only her full juicy lips. She is wearing an over-sized tee shirt with sleeves rolled up like 1980's Bruce Springsteen. Because the tee is so big on her, the neck of the tee on her right side has slid down slightly so we can see her toned neck muscles and creamy shoulder.



PANEL 4: is another square the same size as Panel 2 and directly below PANEL 2.

COL. CAMERON MITCHELL is MITCHELL is wearing cami-fatigue pants, a white wife-beater, hip waders and aviator's sun-glasses. We see the right profile of COL. MITCHELL as he is about to the line from his fishing pole. He has the body of an endurance athlete, think Lance Armstrong.



PANEL 5 is a square panel the same size and to the right of PANEL 4. We see Doctor Daniel Jackson sitting in a deck chair. He is not fishing; he is wearing Bermuda shorts and an orange live vest over a green Henley shirt. On his head he is wearing one of those beer hats with straws leading from separate cans of beer to his mouth. He is listening to an Ipod and reading a book. We can see Ipod headphones leading to his ears. He is reading Bram Stoker's Dracula, the book is in front of his face, and we can only see his glasses above the book. He has his left leg over the arm of the deck chair; his posture is slouched and relaxed.



PANEL 6 is a thin rectangular panel, along the length of the bottom of the page. In big block capital letters on the left hand side of the panel near the top is STAR GATE SG1/STAR GATE ATLANTIS

Below that in the same letters, THE TEPPES ENGINE, and below that in smaller letter capital letters, PART 1, BETRAYED. On the right of the panel is

The team credits and whatever other misc

credit info we need to include.



PAGE 2-3 (one large SPLASH PAGE PANEL that takes up PAGES 2 AND 3) We see the entire team on the dock in relation to the first page as like a movie camera is shooting in from the water and our POV is from the water. The entire background consists of a continuation of the background of PANEL 2 on PAGE 1 of the wooden wall that was behind O'NEILL, with a variety of fishing and boating paraphernalia attached through out its length. In the foreground that runs the length of the two pages in front of the dock is the pond, calm body water. On the far left of PAGE 2, we see DOCTOR DANIEL JACKSON exactly the way he was in the previous page and panel (PAGE 1, PANEL 5) he is still slouched in his deck chair, but now his legs are stretched out before him and crossed at the ankles. To the right of DOCTOR DANIEL JACKSON, we see GENERAL JACK O'NEILL sitting in a white birch rocking chair. Empty beer bottles sit upright near his feet and the rocking chair along with some burnt out cigar stubs on the dock floor on the side of the chair opposite to the dock floor on the side of the chair that contains the tackle box and fly tying kit. To the right of GENERAL JACK O'NEILL on PAGE 2 and overlaps the far left side of PAGE 3, we see COL. SAMANTHA CARTER sitting on the dock. Her jeans are rolled up to her knees and her bare feet are submerged in the pond. A fishing pole lies on the dock floor to her right, the line of the pole trails out to the pond. Her t-shirt has the logo and album cover for Type O' Negative's, Bloody Kisses. A beer bottle sits next to her in easy reach. Her body language reads of a woman who is relaxed and in love. Further along the dock to the far right of PAGE 3 we see COL. CAMERON MITCHELL standing by the railing of the dock. A few beer bottles rest on the railing. He is in mid cast, his arm muscles are corded, and his fishing pole is slightly above his head. His wife beater has risen above his navel revealing a ripped stomach. He is chewing on a blade of grass.



PAGE 4. (5 panels)



PANEL 1is a square panel on the left half of the upper part of the page. A close up of GENERAL JACK O'NEILL taking a sip of his beer. We see that his eyes are closed and that he is enjoying that beer. Because it is a close-up shot, we can see the fatigue and age lines on his face.



PANEL 2 is a square panel that consists of the right hand side of the upper part of the page. We see a close up of GENERAL JACK O'NEILL'S aging, semi-liver spotted hands attempting to tie a home made fly. His fly tying kit is balanced on his knees. His hands have a slight tremor.



PANEL 3 is rectangular and consists of the entire middle of PAGE 4 directly below PANEL 2 and PANEL 3. We see that GENERAL JACK O'NEILL has dropped his fly tying kit onto the dock floor. He is bent over in his chair and is picking up his equipment. COL. SAMANTHA CARTER has removed her feet from the pond, she is still sitting on the dock, and she has her arms wrapped around legs pulling them to her chest. She is resting her chin on her knees, water droplets are on her feet and lower legs dripping down to the dock. She is turned towards GENERAL JACK O'NEILL.



PANEL 4 is a square and consists of half of the bottom of the page on the left side. A close-up shot of DOCTOR DANIEL JACKSON, he has removed his Ipod and his beer can hat. His book is lying on the railing of his deck chair. He is holding his glasses with one hand and rubbing his face near his eyes with the other. We see that his face has a day or a day and half's growth of beard.



PANEL 5 is square and takes up the bottom right of the page. We see a close up of COL. CAMERON MITCHELL, he is in mid-cast again. His face is a grimace of concentration. We cannot make out his eyes because of the aviators sun-glasses, but we can still tell that he is intent on catching a fish. His beer bottle that rests on the railing refracts sunlight through its brown visage, casting a somber light.



PAGE 5: (7 PANELS)



PANEL1. Is rectangular, it takes up the entire top of the page. It is a reiteration of the FIFTH PANEL ON PAGE 4. We see COL CAMERON MITCHELL from another angle and a wider view. He is sipping from his beer and nonchalantly holding his pole. He has one foot resting on the lower railing of the dock railing. He has pushed his sunglasses up onto his head. He seems so relaxed.

DON'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS GENERAL.



PANEL 2: is a square that is on the left hand side of the upper middle of the page below PANEL 1. We see a front view of GENERAL JACK O'NEILL. He has finished tying off his fly and has cast his line. He is sitting in his rocking chair, rocking and fishing. We need to show the rocking motion of his chair. The lines in his face are so clear. He is still handsome as hell; his face has that rugged, wind blown, almost leathery look.

OUT HERE SON, ITS JUST JACK.



PANEL 3: is a square in the upper-middle right hand side of the page, the same size as PANEL 2.We see COL. SAMANTHA CARTER lying on the dock. She is on her side, her feet towards GENERAL JACK O'NEILL, her head is propped up on her elbow. She has a shit eating grin.

SOUNDS LIKE A LINE FROM WILL AND GRACE.



PANEL 4 consists of a square in the lower middle on the far left side of PAGE

5. We see DOCTOR DANIEL JACKSON. His Ipod draped over the arm of the chair. His glasses are held between his fingers. He also has a big shit eating grin.

JUST JACK.

He exclaims like the Jack character on Will and Grace.



PANEL 5: is a squarish panel to the right of PANEL 4. It consists of a close up of GENERAL JACK ONEILL'S face. He attempts to keep his composure but cannot help but allow a wry smile. We can see that he is trying very very hard not to encourage the line of conversation, but he cannot resist temptation.

OK, THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT...BUT, JUST OUT OF CURIOUSITY, WHICH ONE OF YOU IS WILL AND GRACE?



PANEL 6: is a small rectangle that takes up the majority of the left side bottom of page 5. We see an entire body shot of COL SAMANTHA CARTER. She has pretty much abandoned any attempt at real fishing. She is sitting up on the dock one leg folded under her butt; the other is hanging off the dock. She is laughing and in mid-stretch which makes her chest stick out.

DON'T JUST ASSUME BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN THAT MAKES ME GRACE.



PANEL 7: is a small rectangle that is on the right hand bottom of PAGE 5 and slightly overlaps PANEL 6. We see DOCTOR DANIEL JACKSON doubled up in his chair laughing. We can actually see a tiny balding spot on his head. The Dracula novel has fallen onto the dock; its pages are being blown by a slight breeze. He plays along with the whole Will and Grace Scenario.

WELL, DON'T ASSUME JUST BECAUSE I'M A MAN THAT I'M WILL.



PAGE 6 (5 PANELS)



PANEL 1: is a long rectangle that takes up the entire top of PAGE 6. GENERAL JACK ONEILL has pushed his rocker back and has it balanced against the back wall. He has his beer tipped up high and he is taking a long pull from his bottle. He is obviously enjoying the nonsense and banter. His fishing pole is locked tightly between his legs.

DON'T LOOK AT ME...I'M...JUST JACK.



PANEL 2: is squarish and consists of the left hand corner of PAGE 6 directly below the left side of PANEL 1. We see COL CAMERON MITCHELL still fishing, but he is good naturedly looking over his shoulder at SG1.

OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. WHAT HAPPENED TO PEACE AND QUIET? WHAT HAPPENED TO ENJOYING THE IDYLLIC SCENERY? AND, WHILE WERE ON SOME TOUCHY SUBJECTS, WHAT HAPPENED TO FISHING? AND WHAT'S WORSE YOU GUYS ARE SCARING THE FISH.
to be cont....

Journal

Journal/ Fissures work journal: almost the end
Current mood: angsty
Category: and blah Writing and Poetry


Behind on deadlines. Behind on play Fissures. I can't get to the end...Should be a few more lines but I don't see it an ending ever...I need to finish this, NOW
The deadline for Fissures was 11-30-07. I had a family emergency and I hope my director will take that under consideration. If not, well on to the next...I've got ideas falling out of my pores. But limited time. Last night I had every intention of taking a quick nap and do some work for most of the night. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 5:30am with a cat's ass in my face. Yummy.
Back to work...
I'm putting the cats out for the night
Lee

Journal

Journal





The deadline for Fissures rapidly approaches and I have review books to read and review. Fissures comes first, so it is time once again to do some marathon writing. I am almost in my office, half in, half out...moving can be exhilarating and a pain in the ass at the same time. My life is full of "partially to mostly" emotional weather patterns. A woman emailed me expressing interest in using one of my plays. I emailed her back and haven't heard a damn thing from her. I emailed an editor of a review magazine for work and he gave me his personal phone number to discuss logistics. When the topic of payment came up...he told me that payment usually consists of the item that is being reviewed and a byline. I told him that as a professional reviewer and freelance writer those terms were unacceptable. We ended the conversation on what I thought was polite and respectful. Later, I reconsidered and decided that working for his magazine once in a while for a by line because of the magazine's circulation would probably be beneficial for both of us. I emailed him some Clips (samples of my published writing) and a cover letter. So far, I have heard nothing from him. OH WELL.
My car died and mysteriously resurrected itself when the garage mechanics tried to find the problem. It has been at the garage for the last three days and I have been depending upon family and friends for rides. What an enabling nightmare and disruption of my routine. Hopefully it will work tomorrow and I'll be able to get back on task.
I co-directed some APT theater company actors last night through some scenes during rehearsals of Zero People last night, what a rush!
After I am done writing Fissures, I'm going to re-write a few short pieces and re-work two of my 10-20 minute plays for consideration of a theater in NYC. I haven't decided which plays. I was thinking of my plays, Waiting For God and Congestion. I think I will continue to post a work journal for whatever I happen to be working on. A mentor of mine has informed me that my playwriting format is antiquated. That is good news to me, my format was complicated, the new proper format is simple. Learning quickly to write in that format and loving it.
A young man and I are currently seeing if we can collaborate on a graphic novel called Meal Ticket, based on a series of novels I started writing in my early twenties; what I hope is a brand new twist on the vampire mythology.
I think I might post a sample of the first page of script he is currently illustrating.

I'm sure there is more to discuss...but I can't think of anything else at this moment.

I'll be off myspace for awhile to complete my Fissures Deadline.

I can always be contacted through: goodenreviews@yahoo.com
and lee@leegooden.com I still hate my website.
L

FISSURES WORK JOURNAL 7

FISSURES

A

LOVE

PLAY

OF

NOW,

THEN,

AGAIN,

AND

LATER

WRITTEN

BY

LEE GOODEN



CAST OF CHARACTERS:



CLAY

ANNA



SCENES: 1. NOW, 2. THEN, 3. AGAIN, 4. AND LATER







SCENE 1: NOW, THE LIVINGROOM: CLAY and ANNA atre sitting side by side on a couch center stage facing the audience. A coffee table is directly in front of them. On the table are, two coffee cups sitting on coasters (ANNA is very fussy about the coasters), a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a half filled ashtray, a tv guide, crossword or word jumble puzzle book, pens and pencils and a couple of remote controls. Periodically, CLAY OR ANNA will pick up the television remote and point at the audience as if channel surfing.



CLAY

Nothing but reruns.

ANNA

Let's watch a dvd.

CLAY

I don't feel like getting off the couch, do you? Keep flipping; there's a thousand channels in high Def, has to be something good somewhere.


ANNA

What did we do before Dvr and Tivo?



CLAY

We drank copious amounts of alcohol and had a lot of sex.


ANNA

Sounds good…


CLAY

Which part, sex or drinking?


ANNA

Both…Oh, look, there's Iron Chef.

CLAY

What's the secret ingredient?

CLAY and ANNA
KUMQUATS!!!!


CLAY

(with remote)

What are kumquats anyway?



ANNA

Damned if I know, vegetable, animal or mineral?



CLAY

Sounds like something found in the back of those really personal personal adds: Wanted SWF that likes to bike, ski, take long walks in the moonlight, tea-bagging, light bondage, and coffee colonics. Must have own kumquats.



ANNA

I am not going to encourage you by laughing.



CLAY

We've been married for forty-five years, you should know by now that I don't need encouragement.



To be cont…

a mind is a terrible thing to...waste?

Charlie Stross is a great Sci-fi writer. Hell, the man is brilliant in so many different fields, I can't list them. Read his stuff and check out his website.

http://.antipope.org/charlie/

People are entitled to their opinion, but man, read the following: Some people shoud just keep their uninformed ignorant rantings to themselves.

"The book is not that interesting, as tales of desperation and survival are actually quite common."

What do the public really think of literature?

Here are some examples, in the form of reviews culled from the reader comments on Amazon.com.

1984 by George Orwell:

Caitlyn from Atlanta, GA, wrote: "1984 is the worst book I have ever read. I would advise anyone who is thinking about reading this book to reconcider! George Orwell is not a bad writer, however, this book he does not do evry well on, as some of his others. Prehaps he was getting old and lost his touch. Animal Farm was okay, but 1984 was horrible. It took him forever, it seemed like, to get into the accual book. If someone were to take out all of the useless part of 1984, it would be half as long. Why would he wirte so much about nothing? I havent ever meet someone who could wirte such a boring book about the goverment. I have meet many people who have loved this book, but i dispised it. I am not at all intrested in the goverment. This may be part of the reason that I didnt like it. I would advise you not to read this book."

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

R. Vanderhoof wrote: "I spent several weeks slogging through this book and found it to be very repetitive and tedious in the extreme. Keeping track of the family tree is a constant effort. At best, Marquez reveals an egalitarian attitude that seems to pervade the Americas south of the Rio Grande (no wonder those countries are in constant economic trouble). Marquez should study supply side economics as described by Milton Friedman, another Nobel Prize winner, in order to give his book better balance."

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:

Ashley Lue wrote: "This was the worst book that I have ever read! The way that Huxley wrote the book was awful. He was writing about something that could never happen to our society. Back then he thought that our world would pretty much go to hell and the book portrayed the world that we should be living in today. Nothing that he said made sense. I don't understand why he would want anyone to live in that weird world that those people had to live in. People should have emotions and actual relationships. No one should be punished like that. I advise you not to read this book, unless you want to fall asleep!! :)"

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens:

goosedog 69 (New York) wrote: "if you don't like reading books with way too much detail than don't buy this book. when i was reading it i couldn't understand anything it said. if you are older maybe you wouldn't think it's boring, or if you like this author's books, but i thought it was very boring and it took me forever and a half to read."

A reader wrote: "I found this book difficult to follow and hard to hold my interest. I am an English teacher so I don't think it's me. I was revved about the book and started it immediately unpon receipt. I didn't even finish it--which is something I can say about few books..."

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer:

[A — presumably — different] A reader wrote: "his book has potential but fails to deliver the goods. too much time is invested for the pay off. i hated the time machine sequences they were a total waste of time, eventually i just skiped them to help get the book over. this is a shame because there were some very good parts to the book a good editor could have improved it by trimming a few hundred pages."

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare:

Son of Sammy wrote: "i just read this book. everybody like always talks about how great it is and everything. but i don't think so. like, it's been done before, right?? soooo cliched. omg."

The Quiet American by Graham Greene:

Jorge Frid (in Mexico City) wrote: "AT first you think that you are going to read about some secret agent in Vietnam that was killed, but when you see that the story of the book is not that man, is a journalist from England that doesn't want to go back to his country you will be disappointed, the book doesn't have any main story, it has the story of the journalist, his girlfriend (who was also the girlfriend of the "secret agent") and many more, but you will not be interested in one story at all, a real waste of time this book."

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe:

Newton Ooi (in Phoenix, AZ) wrote: "If imitation is the highest form of praise, then this book must be one of the most praised books in the English canon. A man from a middle-class upbringing leaves it and ends up stuck on a tropical island. This story would inspire Swiss Family Robinson, Castaway, and probably Lord of the Flies. Mr. Crusoe is a white, Englishman with a wife and kids. After the wife dies, he leaves the kids to go on his own and to serve God. He ends up stuck on an island by himself. There he encounters cannibalistic natives, and one of their intended victims. The former scares him, and he essentially enslaves the latter, teaching him to call him Master.

"The book is not that interesting, as tales of desperation and survival are actually quite common."

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy:

A reader wrote: "I love classic novels. Some of my favorites: Gone with the wind/The catcher in the rye/Huck Finn/The Iliad..I adore Shakespeare... this book was B-O-R-I-N-G!!! I stopped reading at 400 pages. I am someone that almost never stops reading books. I couldn't stand it any longer. I don't mind the parts the were actually about Anna and human relationships. I could not stand all of the boring Russian politic talk or Levin and his boring farming or hunting talk. AHH! I do not recommend this book. If I truly hated someone, I would them to read this book."

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck:

Jef4Jesus wrote: "So, I'm only on page 478 of 619, but I've been disgusted at the amount of profanity. So far I've found more than 500 uses of profanity! On average every page (with relatively big writing, even) has more than one swear. Yikes! I'm never going to read Grapes of Wrath again, and won't be recommending it to anyone. If you don't like profanity, be careful."

M. Landis wrote: "This book was 600 pages written purly about a bunch of hicks from Oklahoma starving. Thanks, but no thanks."


Posted by Charlie Stross at 11:05 AM

fissures work journal entry 4

FISSURES

A

PLAY

OF

LOVE

NOW,

THEN,

AGAIN,

AND

LATER

WRITTEN

BY

LEE GOODEN



CAST OF CHARACTERS:



CLAY

ANNA



SCENES: 1. NOW, 2. THEN, 3. AGAIN, 4. AND LATER







SCENE 1: NOW, THE LIVINGROOM: CLAY and ANNA are sitting side by side on a couch center stage facing the audience. A coffee table is directly in front of them. On the table are, two coffee cups sitting on coasters (ANNA is very fussy about the coasters), a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a half filled ashtray, a tv guide, crossword or word jumble puzzle book, pens and pencils and a couple of remote controls. Periodically, CLAY OR ANNA will pick up the television remote and point at the audience as if chinnel surfing.


CLAY
(with remote)

Nothing but reruns.

ANNA

Let's watch a dvd.

CLAY

I don't feel like getting off the couch, do you? Keep flipping; there's a thousand channels in high Def, has to be something good somewhere.


ANNA

What did we do before Dvr and Tivo?

CLAY

We drank copious amounts of alcohol and had a lot of sex.


ANNA

Sounds good…


CLAY

Which part, sex or drinking?


ANNA

Both…Oh, look, there's Iron Chef.

CLAY

What's the secret ingredient?

CLAY and ANNA

KUMQUATS!!!!



To be cont….

FISSURES WORK JOURNAL

Friday, November 16, 2007


new play: Fissures working journal entries
Category: Writing and Poetry

New play: working journal. entry 1

I decided to keep a journal of my ideas for the new play I'm writing about love and marriage. So far, here is my working title FISSURES.
A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure or simply fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity.

We all have fissures in our relationships. Don't you think? They keep us from killing each other.

What are your fissures or relase valves in a relationship?


entry 2
Edward Albee wrote a wonderful short play about marriage called Counting the Ways. I'm going to reread this. He is always so damn insightful.

entry 3
The official title of the play:
Fissures: Love Now, Then, Again and Later.

Characters: CLAY and ANNA

Scenes are divided into Now, then , Again and Later.

Research:
"Steeplechase, which had a huge funny face of a man over its entrance leering at the throngs below, was very special. A flat fee bought not only a good number of rides but, for pubescent young men, the joys of voyeurism. Strategically placed air jets sent the flimsy summer skirts of shrieking young women billowing up to reveal glimpses of shocking pink unmentionables. Steeplechase outlasted all of its competitors, but it came to a convulsive end in 1965 after a series of devastating fires and financial setbacks. In 1966 it was sold to Fred Trump—Donald's father—for $2.5 million."

"Afterwards you could sit in the funhouse audience and watch as the folks got off the ride and got shocked. You also got to see the womens skirts getting blown up by hidden air jets. One time a very embarrassed old teacher, (probably was in her 30's which was old to us), was caught with no underwear as her skirt went up to her neck! All we could do was look at each other in utter disbelief..... and of course utter joy."
-Glassman

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Blowhole Theater, Steeplechase Park


Description
A woman's skirt is blown up by the compressed air machines at the Blowhole Theater as onlookers observe.

"The Blowhole Theater, located at the exit of the Steeplechase ride, forced unwitting women to stand above an opening that blasted air up their skirts while the crowd--generally recent victims themselves--looked on with approval. If a woman's escort protested, he often received an electric shock from a clown waiting nearby."
Description sources
The American Experience (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/peopleevents/pande08.html
Accession number
SK.Photo.107
Collection category
Coney Island History Project Study Collection
Artifact class
Photographs
Work type
Documentary
Overall dimensions (inches)
8 X 10 inches
Date created 1943
Terms
amusement parks, describes the object
black-and-white photographs, describes the object
Related places
Steeplechase Park", HAUTO, VAUTO, FGCLASS, "tooltipInside", BGCLASS, "tooltipOutside");' .."nd();">Steeplechase Park, was creation location of the object
Blowhole Theater, is depicted by the object

note: Google has a quick video of this.

IDEAS FOR FISSURES PLAY





1 LOOK INTO STEEPLE CHASE PARK NEAR CONEY ISLAND.



2 WHAT IF THE CLOWN WITH THE AIR HOSE END FALLS IN LOVE AMD MARRIES ONE OF THE GIRLS , WHO'S SKIRT HE BLEW UP. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.



3 IT IS A LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, WHEN HE SEES HER HE PURSUES HER NOT AS A CLOWN, BUT AS A MAN WHO IS A CLOWN OR A CLOWN THAT IS A MAN. CAN HE BE ONE OR THE OTHER



4 HE REVEALS TO HER WHEN THEY'RE IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS THAT HE WAS THE CLOWN



5 SHE ENJOYED EXHIBITING HER GOODS.



6 CLOWN METAPHOR



7 AIR METAPHOR