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Star Theatre / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Star Theatre (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wrecking.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Star Theatre (New York, N.Y.).
- Wrecking--New York (State)--New York.
- New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Genre:
- Streaming video.
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video)
- Other Title:
- Star Theater
- Selections from the National Film Registry.
- Place of Publication:
- United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Using time-lapse photography, the film shows the demolition of the famous Star Theatre. Judging from the various exposures, the work must have gone on for a period of approximately thirty days. The theater opened in 1861 as "Wallack's Theatre," and was re-christened the "Star" in 1883. It was well known for it's excellent productions, and a number of celebrated actors and actresses worked there, among them Ellen Terry. The celebrated English actor Henry Irving made his first stage appearance in America at the Star.
- Credits:
- Camera, Frederick S. Armitage.
- Notes:
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18Apr1902; H16735.
- Duration: 1:55 at 15 fps.
- Photographed in 1901. Location: Broadway and 13th Street, New York, N.Y.
- Biograph production no. 1845.
- Paper print shelf number (LC 1874) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
- Filmed in April, 1901 in New York City.
- This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
- Sources used: Niver K., Early motion pictures, p. 310; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed August 21, 2012; Eagan's America's film legacy, p. 9; Biograph production logs, v. 1: 1899-1903, p. 92-93; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 255.
- Forms part of the American Memory exhibit Life in the city: early films of New York, 1898-1906.
- Publications about:
- Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
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