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* BigApplesauce: They didn't film the Sears Tower!
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* BigApplesauce: They didn't film the Sears Tower!Tower! [[CaptainObvious Because it hadn't been built yet.]]
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* {{Overcrank}}: It would have been RealTime if Warhol had simply let his 6 hours and 18 minutes of footage play, but he left specific instructions that the 24 feet frames per second footage be played at only 16 feet frames per second, which makes it even longer.
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->''"I had a teacher in film school who bragged about having watched EMPIRE in its entirety. I have often wondered what Warhol would have said to that. My guess is, 'What a waste of time.'"''
-->-- '''Website/IMDb [[https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1166542/?ref_=tt_urv review]]'''
-->-- '''Website/IMDb [[https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1166542/?ref_=tt_urv review]]'''
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It is an eight hour, five minute static shot of the Empire State Building.
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It is an eight hour, five minute eight-hour, five-minute static shot of the Empire State Building.
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* TheOner: One of the oldest examples of this, in fact.
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Andy Warhol was an experimental artist who is probably still most famous today for his collages of Creator/MarilynMonroe and Campbell's Soup cans, but during this era was making decidedly unconventional films, like ''Sleep'', a 5 hour, 20 minute film of a man sleeping. In April 1964, the upper stories of the Empire State Building were lit by floodlights to commemorate the 1964 World's Fair. It was the first time the upper part of the building had been lit up at night, and it was the only skyscraper on the island that was lit up. Warhol chose to capture it in a film.
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Andy Warhol was an experimental artist who is probably still most famous today for his collages of Creator/MarilynMonroe and Campbell's Soup cans, but during cans. During this era he was making decidedly unconventional films, like ''Sleep'', a 5 hour, 20 minute film of a man sleeping. In April 1964, the upper stories of the Empire State Building were lit by floodlights to commemorate the 1964 World's Fair. It was the first time the upper part of the building had been lit up at night, and it was the only skyscraper on the island that was lit up. Warhol chose to capture it in a film.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Pass the popcorn.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Pass the popcorn.]]
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''Empire'' is a 1964 film created by Creator/AndyWarhol.
It is an eight hour, five minute static shot of the Empire State Building.
[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, we're not kidding.]]
Andy Warhol was an experimental artist who is probably still most famous today for his collages of Creator/MarilynMonroe and Campbell's Soup cans, but during this era was making decidedly unconventional films, like ''Sleep'', a 5 hour, 20 minute film of a man sleeping. In April 1964, the upper stories of the Empire State Building were lit by floodlights to commemorate the 1964 World's Fair. It was the first time the upper part of the building had been lit up at night, and it was the only skyscraper on the island that was lit up. Warhol chose to capture it in a film.
Cameras were set up in a room in Rockefeller Center. Filming started at 8:06 pm on July 24, 1964, right before sunset. The film starts with a white background, which fades into a shot of the Empire State Building as the sun is setting. The camera never moves. There are no cuts. There is no sound. Nothing happens. Filming ended at 2:24 am on the 25th. Warhol said the purpose of ''Empire'' was "to see time go by."
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* BigApplesauce: They didn't film the Sears Tower!
* EpicMovie: Well, it ''is'' eight hours long.
* LeFilmArtistique: Andy Warhol pretty much deliberately making such a film.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Surely the all-time champion of this trope.
* NoPlotNoProblem: There is no story.
* Overcrank: It would have been RealTime if Warhol had simply let his 6 hours and 18 minutes of footage play, but he left specific instructions that the film be played at only 16 feet per second, which makes it even longer.
* SilenceIsGolden: No sound recording.
It is an eight hour, five minute static shot of the Empire State Building.
[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, we're not kidding.]]
Andy Warhol was an experimental artist who is probably still most famous today for his collages of Creator/MarilynMonroe and Campbell's Soup cans, but during this era was making decidedly unconventional films, like ''Sleep'', a 5 hour, 20 minute film of a man sleeping. In April 1964, the upper stories of the Empire State Building were lit by floodlights to commemorate the 1964 World's Fair. It was the first time the upper part of the building had been lit up at night, and it was the only skyscraper on the island that was lit up. Warhol chose to capture it in a film.
Cameras were set up in a room in Rockefeller Center. Filming started at 8:06 pm on July 24, 1964, right before sunset. The film starts with a white background, which fades into a shot of the Empire State Building as the sun is setting. The camera never moves. There are no cuts. There is no sound. Nothing happens. Filming ended at 2:24 am on the 25th. Warhol said the purpose of ''Empire'' was "to see time go by."
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!!Tropes:
* BigApplesauce: They didn't film the Sears Tower!
* EpicMovie: Well, it ''is'' eight hours long.
* LeFilmArtistique: Andy Warhol pretty much deliberately making such a film.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Surely the all-time champion of this trope.
* NoPlotNoProblem: There is no story.
* Overcrank: It would have been RealTime if Warhol had simply let his 6 hours and 18 minutes of footage play, but he left specific instructions that the film be played at only 16 feet per second, which makes it even longer.
* SilenceIsGolden: No sound recording.
