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A Catastrophe in Hester Street
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Title: A Catastrophe in Hester Street

Release Date: 11 Dec 1903

Runtime: 2m

Genre: Comedy, Action, Horror

Director: American Mutoscope & Biograph

Production Companies: American Mutoscope & Biograph

Overview: 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 vendors arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendors arm with a severed leg.

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