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American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

A Catastrophe in Hester Street

1904 2 min English
Wubly rating 5.6 IMDb rating 4.3

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro powder, causing an explosion that wrecks the block and blows off the vendor’s arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendor’s arm with a severed leg.

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United States release January 12, 1904 · Produced in United States

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American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

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United States · January 12, 1904

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