A Catastrophe in Hester Street

Synopsis

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.

Studio

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Released

12 January 1904

Genres

Comedy, Action, Horror