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16. Lost Veteran

by Mike Petty

3 months ago

15. Minute and a Half Movie - No Rainbows Required

by Mike Petty

3 months ago

14. An Appreciation of Three Bridges, Wichita Kansas

by Mike Petty

4 months ago

13. Flow

by Mike Petty

4 months ago

12. No Joy

by Mike Petty

10 months ago

11. Lee & Grant - Oh, Freedom

by Mike Petty

11 months ago

10. Lee & Grant - Music of the Civil War

by Mike Petty

11 months ago

9. Lee & Grant - No Great Sport

by Mike Petty

11 months ago

8. Lee & Grant - Never Lost a Battle

by Mike Petty

11 months ago

7. Foggy Morning

by Mike Petty

11 months ago

6. Death to Smoothee

by Mike Petty

1 year ago

5. Snow Day

by Mike Petty

1 year ago

4. Kinetic Type Test

by Mike Petty

1 year ago

3. The Things We Keep

by Mike Petty

1 year ago

2. Botanica

by Mike Petty

1 year ago

1. Elk River Wind Farm

by Mike Petty

1 year ago

The abandoned Joyland Amusement park in Wichita, Kansas. Great, sad images. This film has been really well received on Vimeo with over 250,00 views.

It has also been covered on the Guardian's website in the UK and was recently featured on Wired.com.

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Lonny Quattlebaum 10 months ago

Great video Mike. Makes me miss that place.
Max_Carsel 9 months ago

I like that.. !
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Mike Petty 10 months ago

Thanks...I did not grow up in Wichita but one of my brothers used to work there when he was in high school. He has some great stories.
Andrea Allen 10 months ago

Crazy to see that place like this. Thanks for sharing! The Scrambler was my favorite. ::tear::
Gabriel Franco 10 months ago

Nice, Mike! I liked the colors and the sound, specially.
The Film Artist 10 months ago

And this is America today, the American dream... Good work Mark :) [TFA30]
Rascataplau 10 months ago

Lovely video. The voices create a shocking effect
Susan Pott Mikulecky 9 months ago

Stunning images- I too grew up there. Your addition of sound was haunting. Thank you.
Max Mikulecky 9 months ago

Incredible images. My mom grew up going to Joyland and I got to experience the park right before it closed down. Very well done!
Wade Hampton 9 months ago

Very nice and very moving.
Barrett Voisin 9 months ago

Hey Mike, I been wanting to shoot some footage at Joyland for some time now. Can you give me any help on whom I should get in contact with? Also this video is brilliant. Excellent job.
Paragone Pictures 9 months ago

Film school
Mike Petty 9 months ago

I come from the better to ask forgiveness than permission school of production (at least on this project) I just slipped in with my gear and shot pretty quickly. I didn't contact anybody, I just went and shot.
Barrett Voisin 9 months ago

lol ty... The video was awesome and the audio was really clever.
Terry Vaughn 9 months ago

Great video Mike. My wife and I worked with your brother at Joyland summer of '74. Although we haven't kept in touch, he was a very close friend that we had a lot of great times with. Please send greetings from Terry and Linda!
RJ Evans 9 months ago

Lovely to look at, made me almost melancholic!

kuriositas.com/2011/05/no-joy.html

Thanks!
Ryan 9 months ago

I found this thanks to io9.com. Very cool video!
Chris Duke 9 months ago

Beautifully done. I really enjoyed watching this, even though I have never been there nor am I really that fond of amusement parks. It was just really well done. Great camera movements with the PD and perfect music with ride sounds. I'm going to share... thanks.
Mike Petty 9 months ago

Thanks...it was fun. The park is a mess but it looks great on film.
alan halfhill 9 months ago

Well done. Sad, emotional, beautiful video.
marshallbaker 9 months ago

Great use of sound effects and music. You mention how you graded it but what picture profile setting did you use? Neutral?
Mike Petty 9 months ago

I think when I shot this I was using the Marvel's Cinestyle/Picture Style. You can Google it. I am using the Technicolor Picture Style now...really like it a base for post.
marshallbaker 9 months ago

Cool deal, thanks. I recently downloaded the technicolor style but haven't played with it yet. Hoping to this week
Seth Kinkaid 9 months ago

i grew up going to joyland! wow... brings back tons of memories. thanks for this, seriously!
Toby Cummings 9 months ago

Haunting but amazing. ;-) It somewhat reminds me of an apocalyptic world. I think this location would make for some great photography backgrounds.
Jeff Sites 9 months ago

Poignant movie, Mike. Did you have a any trouble getting in? I've often thought of going there to shoot stills, but wasn't sure I could get (or stay) in without causing trouble.
Josh Dutcher 9 months ago

Sad. I also went there a lot as a kid. Really good video, well done.

I shot some stills there a few years back:

flickr.com/photos/busychild424/sets/862427/show/
Leif Jonker 9 months ago

Very, very nice Mike. Thanks for sharing this.
Darian Rawson 9 months ago

I'm from Wichita and spent many company picnics at Joy Land, so thanks. This was pretty interesting.
laura l 9 months ago

Love what you did with it!
Grano 8 months ago

Nice, very nice.
Tulio Campregher 8 months ago

great soundtrack!
West Ramsey 7 months ago

Really nice work! Really enjoyed it!
Chrissie DiAngelus 7 months ago

It's a real time capsule...completely frozen in time. It's fantastic that he was able to get in there and shoot this and capture it. It feels like it was all of a sudden, one day it just decided to close its doors? Sad but perfect being able to capture a time gone by. I love photographing amusement parks, especially old ones like this. Remarkable that it's stayed untouched. Someday some of those park rides will wind up on American Pickers!
Michelle Klein-Hass 7 months ago

I'm getting Carnival of Souls flashbacks...and that's really not a bad thing. Very awesome. Nice work.
Larry Hall 7 months ago

Love the music and surprised by the lack of graffiti, tho did see one spot where it had been painted over. Have you thought of submitting this to themeparkreview.com? The readers like this kind of thing or aceonline.org/ ? (American Coasters Enthusiasts - ACE)
Max Myers 7 months ago

Great video and love the edit. Ultimately, though, it’s very sad to see Americana being abandoned like this. The same thing has happened to most of the Drive-Ins.
FlyingO 7 months ago

Nicely done. I really appreciate videos and photo "essays" on old abandoned or dilapidated places like this. Movie theaters, amusement parks, drive-ins, strip malls, etc., wherever people would gather. The half visual/half memory juxtaposition of what the past may have been with what the present surely is never ceases to fascinate me. Thanks for making this!
Patrick O'Byrne 7 months ago

I like the colors in this video.
Joey Buhrer 7 months ago

Great work. Any plans to film the sequel at Wild West World? ;)
Urbanartcore.eu 6 months ago

nice capture and great atmosphere! i just wrote a post about it: urbanartcore.eu/joyland-abandoned-amusement-park/