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Empire was a silent, black and white film made in 1964 by Andy Warhol. It consists of eight hours and five minutes of continuous footage of the Empire State Building in New York City, and nothing else. Abridged showings of the film were never allowed, because supposedly the very unwatchability of the film was an important part of the reason the film was created. (However, a legitimate Italian VHS produced in association with the Andy Warhol Museum c. 2000, contains only a 60min extract.)

It was filmed from the 41st floor of the Time-Life Building, from the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation.

In 2004, Empire was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress, recognising the cultural, historical and aesthetic significance of the movie, as well as the risk of the original movie reel "no longer being preserved" (even though the Andy Warhol Museum's own preservation of the huge Warhol film/videotape catalogue is somewhat unique in the world of underground film).

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