Editing Niagara Falls (section)

==Media==

===Movies and television===
[[File:Opening title from Niagara trailer 1.jpg|thumb|The opening title from the theatrical trailer of the 1953 film ''Niagara''.]]
Already a huge tourist attraction and favorite spot for honeymooners, Niagara Falls visits rose sharply in 1953 after the release of ''[[Niagara (1953 film)|Niagara]]'', a movie starring [[Marilyn Monroe]] and [[Joseph Cotten]].<ref name="Dubinsky1999">{{cite book|author=Karen Dubinsky|title=The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls|url=https://archive.org/details/secondgreatestdi0000dubi|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Between The Lines|isbn=978-1-896357-23-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/secondgreatestdi0000dubi/page/212 212]}}</ref> The 1956 animated short ''[[Niagara Fools]]'' featured [[Woody Woodpecker]] attempting to go over the falls in a barrel.<ref>{{cite book|title=Heritage Comic and Comic Art Signature Auction #821|date=July 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAM|publisher=Heritage Capital Corporation|isbn=978-1-59967-063-8|page=229}}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The falls was a featured location in the major motion picture ''[[Superman II]]'' in 1980<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.niagarathisweek.com/whatson-story/8451051-kidder-returns-to-site-of-superman-ii-in-falls/|title=Kidder returns to site of Superman II in Falls|date=April 9, 2015|website=NiagaraThisWeek.com}}</ref> and was the subject of a popular [[IMAX]] movie, ''[[Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imaxniagara.com/IMAX-theater/the-movie.cfm |title=Niagara Falls IMAX Movie &#124; Ontario, Canada |publisher=Imaxniagara.com |access-date=October 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602082840/http://www.imaxniagara.com/IMAX-theater/the-movie.cfm |archive-date=June 2, 2008 }}</ref> Illusionist [[David Copperfield (illusionist)|David Copperfield]] performed a trick in which he appeared to travel over Horseshoe Falls in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://buffalonews.com/1990/03/24/master-illusionist-will-challenge-the-mighty-niagara-on-a-fiery-raft-david-copperfield-claims-there-are-no-camera-tricks/|title=MASTER ILLUSIONIST WILL CHALLENGE THE MIGHTY NIAGARA ON A FIERY RAFT DAVID COPPERFIELD CLAIMS THERE ARE NO CAMERA TRICKS|date=March 24, 1990}}</ref>

The falls, or more particularly, the tourist-supported complex near the falls, was the setting of the short-lived Canadian-shot U.S. television show ''[[Wonderfalls]]'' in early 2004. Location footage of the falls was shot in October 2006 to portray "World's End" of the movie ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/locations| title=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)| work=IMDb}}</ref> Professional kayaker Rafa Ortiz's preparation to paddle over the falls in a kayak is documented in the 2015 film ''Chasing Niagara''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5192278/|title=Chasing Niagara|date=July 5, 2016|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

Kevin McMahon's 1991 documentary film ''[[The Falls (1991 film)|The Falls]]'' explored the place of Niagara Falls in the world's collective imagination, covering both positive and negative aspects of the culture around the falls.<ref name=bastien>Mark Bastien, "The Falls: Film shows beauty and beast". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', October 26, 1991.</ref>

===Literature===
[[File:JoseMariaHeredia-plaque-niagarafalls.JPG|thumb|right|[[José María Heredia y Heredia]] plaque at [[Table Rock, Niagara Falls|Table Rock]]]]
The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the [[H. G. Wells]] novel ''[[The War in the Air]]''.<ref name="Wagar2004">{{cite book|author=W. Warren Wagar|title=H. G. Wells: Traversing Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HExGaHDhVbUC&pg=PA140|date=September 22, 2004|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6725-3|pages=140–}}</ref> Many poets have been inspired to write about the falls.<ref>{{cite book| last = Severance| first = Frank H.| author-link = Frank Severance| date = 1899|chapter= Niagara and the Poets| title = Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PdZCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA275| location = Buffalo, NY| pages = 275–321}}</ref> Among them was the Cuban poet [[José María Heredia y Heredia|José Maria Heredia]], who wrote the poem "Niagara". There are commemorative plaques on both sides of the falls recognizing the poem.<ref name="Colombo1984">{{cite book|author=John Robert Colombo|title=Canadian Literary Landmarks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_pSnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141|date=January 1, 1984|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-0-88882-073-0|page=141}}</ref> In 1818, American poet [[John Neal]] published the poem "Battle of Niagara," which is considered the best poetic description of Niagara Falls up to that time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Kevin J.|editor2-last=Carlson|editor2-first=David J.|editor1-last=Watts|editor1-first=Edward|chapter=Chapter 13: How John Neal Wrote His Autobiography|page=275|title=John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture|publisher=Bucknell University Press|location=Lewisburg, Pennsylvania|year=2012|isbn=978-1-61148-420-5}}</ref> In 1835, as a poetical illustration [[wikisource:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/The Indian Girl|"The Indian Girl"]] to accompany a plate of the [[wikisource:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/Horse-Shoe Falls, Niagara|Horse-Shoe Falls]]—artist [[Thomas Allom]],<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PP8|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref> [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] imagines an Indian girl who, having saved the life of a captured young European man, takes him as her husband only to be later abandoned by him. In her despair she guides her canoe over the falls in dramatic fashion: 'Upright, within that slender boat, they saw the pale girl stand, her dark hair streaming far behind—uprais’d her desperate hand.'<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA19|section=text on Niagara and poetical illustration|pages=19-22|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>

[[Lydia Sigourney]] wrote two dramatic poems on the falls, ''Niagara'', in 1836 and again in her ''Scenes in my native Land'', ''Niagara'', in 1845.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/zinzendorffother00sigo/page/34/mode/2up | title=Zinzendorff, and other poems | year=1836 | publisher=New-York, Leavitt, Lord & co.; Boston, Crocker & Brewster }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/scenesinmynative00sigou/page/n19/mode/2up | title=Scenes in my native land | year=1845 }}</ref> In 1848, the Rev. C. H. A. Bulkley, of [[Mount Morris, New York]] published ''Niagara: A Poem'', a 132-page, 3,600 line blank verse poem presenting the wonders of the falls as "the theme of a single poem."<ref>{{cite book| last = Bulkley| first = C. H. A.| date = 1848| title = Niagara: A Poem| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7ds-AAAAIAAJ| location = New York| publisher = Leavitt, Trow, & Co.}}</ref>

In 1893, Mark Twain wrote a satirical sketch called "The First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls," in which Adam and Eve are living at the Falls.<ref>Strand, p. 71</ref>

===Music===
Composer [[Ferde Grofé]] was commissioned by the Niagara Falls Power Generation project in 1960 to compose the [[Niagara Falls Suite]] in honor of the completion of the first stage of hydroelectric work at the falls.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dumych|first=Daniel M|title=Niagara Falls, Volume 2 |year=1998|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=0-7385-5785-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJjH-Ug8zacC&q=%22Niagara+Falls+Suite%22&pg=PA128}}</ref> In 1997, composer [[Michael Daugherty]] composed ''[[Niagara Falls (composition)|Niagara Falls]]'', a piece for [[concert band]] inspired by the falls.<ref>[[Michael Daugherty|Daugherty, Michael]] (1997). [http://www.michaeldaugherty.net/index.cfm?id=36&i=3&pagename=works ''Niagara Falls'' for symphonic band: Program Note by the Composer]. Retrieved May 20, 2015.</ref>