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The Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ
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Here are the sights, sounds, and stories of the world's largest pipe organ - an historic musical instrument of monumental proportions and a technical marvel built in the Main Auditorium of the Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, between 1929 and 1932 at the height of the Great Depression.

Designed by New Jersey State Senator Emerson L. Richards, this extraordinary instrument has 449 ranks and over 33,000 pipes. Its eight pipe chambers are arranged in a surround-sound configuration inside one of the largest interior spaces ever created.

The organ is played from a seven-manual console located at stage left and from a movable five-manual console. Its seemingly boundless tonal resources combine with the awesome acoustical environment to produce what is perhaps the most moving and magical musical sound ever heard on Earth.

The Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society, Inc., sponsors of this documentary, was founded in 1997 as a 501(c) (3) corporation and is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and use of the organs in Atlantic City’s Historic Boardwalk Hall.

DVD CONTENTS

The Senator's Masterpiece

1 - Introduction
2 - The Magic
3 - Limited Only by the Imagination
4 - The Municipal Organ
5 - The Visionaries
6 - Holding on to the Dream
7 - Casualty of Civic War
8 - Stewards of a Legacy
9 - A Window into Time
10 - A Grassroots Movement Begins
11 - The King of The King of Instruments
12 - Credits

Special Features

“Enduring For A Reason” Documentary Trailer
Right Stage Chamber Tour
The Midmer-Losh Home Movies
The Ballroom Kimball Home Movies
Boardwalk Pipes Exhibit Grand Opening
Boardwalk Hall 3-D Fly-through
About the Producers

Produced by Vic Ferrer Productions, San Francisco
Copyright © 2005 Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society