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Under the Roller Coaster film & video features
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To thousands, the Thunderbolt Roller Coaster was a Coney Island icon, but for Mae Timpano it was home. UNDER THE ROLLER COASTER examines the true-life experience of one woman and her unique relationship to Coney Island living under the famed Thunderbolt Roller Coaster. The film celebrates the Thunderbolt coaster as a piece of architecture that holds memories through which we gain insight into the history of New York and its people.

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