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Release Date: 1901

Categories: Movies, Silent film, Indie, Documentary, Black-and-white, Short Film

Star Theatre (also known as Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre) is a 1901 short documentary film in which time-lapse photography is used to show the dismantling and demolition of New York City's Star Theatre over a period of about a month. Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, it was produced and filmed by F.S. Armitage. It made the National Film Registry in 2002. MORE

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Star Theatre 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... From: LibraryOfCongress Views: 98 1 ratings Time: 02:14 More in Education