A Catastrophe in Hester Street (1903)

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.

Release Date : December 11, 1903

Runtime : 2m

Genre : Comedy, Action, Horror  

Companies : American Mutoscope & Biograph

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : new york city, dynamite, explosion, drunk, severed leg, industrial accident, downtown, severed arm, lower east side, practical special effects, lower manhattan, maimed