Manhattan: Harlem Theater Site Is Named Landmark

Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:50:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Reyes-Montblanc reysmont@yahoo.com
Subject: Manhattan: Harlem Theater Site Is Named Landmark
To: CB9M

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/nyregion/07mbrfs-brief-008.html

Manhattan: WestSide Harlem Theater Site Is Named Landmark

By DAVID W. DUNLAP
Published: June 6, 2006

One of the earliest existing theater buildings in New York designed especially for movies — or "photo plays," as they were called when it opened in 1914 — was given landmark status yesterday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Now a furniture and carpet store, the structure at Broadway and 135th Street was once the Claremont Theater and dance hall. It was designed by Gaetano Ajello and ornamented with a terra-cotta movie camera on a tripod. Thomas Edison recorded Claremont patrons in 1915 in a short film that can be viewed at http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/awal/4185.mpg .





NB - The Claremont Theatre is located on the southeast corner of Broadway and 135th Street in the Manhattanville area of WestSide Harlem - JRM.

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http://www.open-video.org/index.php
Claremont Theatre, N.Y.

Shows the entrance to the Claremont Theatre in New York City at 135th St. and Broadway where Edison is showing Gertrude McCoy and Bigelow Cooper in On the stroke of twelve. Large numbers of men, women and children leave the theater, some as many as two or three times. Delivery boys, a wagon, automobiles and a boy on rollerskates pass by.





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Video Information
Year: 1915
Genre: Historical
Keywords: Theaters--New York (State); Actuality--Short;
Duration: 00:03:42
Color: No
Sound: No
Amount of Motion: Medium
Language: English
Sponsor: Thomas Edison
Contributing Organization: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
Transcript Available: No
Copyright Statement: Public domain

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