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Poster for Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)

Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901)

1901 · Silent film · 1 min · dir. Frederick S. Armitage

  • Documentary

Synopsis

This film shows the demolition of the historic Star Theatre building (formerly Wallack's) at the corner of Broadway and 13th Street, New York. To secure this unique picture a Biograph camera was kept constantly at work by specially devised electric apparatus for weeks, during which time exposures were made every four minutes, 8 hours a day. Before the contractors began their work of tearing down and after the last vestige of the building had been removed, 15 seconds of exposure at normal speed…

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Details

Director
Frederick S. Armitage
Studio
American Mutoscope & Biograph
Released
1901-04-29
Running time
1 minutes

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