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Star Theatre
Title
Star Theatre / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Published
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (2 min.)).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18Apr1902; H16735.
Original duration: 1:55 at 15 fps.
Previously published as DVD.
Streaming media.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Star Theater
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Other formats
Original
Original
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2022
Series
New York at the turn of the century
American history in video
Subjects
Genre/Form
Online media.
Internet videos.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
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