1906 - Theatre exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Brooklyn Public Library, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2009-09-02 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2012-03-22 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2012-03-22 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2023-05-23 - From cinematreasures.org: Located on the corner of Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street. This long-gone Brooklyn theatre is notable for being one of Bushwick-native Jackie Gleason’s jobs, emceeing, in his teens, not long after his first gig, emceeing at the Halsey Theatre. The Folly Theatre was opened as a vaudeville theatre October 14, 1901. Seating was provided for 2,170, with 800 in the orchestra, 550 in the balcony, 700 in the gallery and 120 in the box seats. The proscenium was 30 ft wide. It was taken over by William Fox in July 1909 and was presenting vaudeville and movies, renamed Fox’s Folly Theatre. It was equipped with a Moller 3 manual, 21 rank organ in 1915. In 1931 it was taken over by an independent operator and reverted back to the Folly Theatre name. It was closed in 1939 and after ten years standing unused it was demolished in December 1949. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist from handwritten agreement, via Larry Trupiano Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Brooklyn, New York
Folly Theatre
M. P. Möller, Inc. Opus 2027 1915 3 manuals, 21 stops, 21 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 61
8' Concert Flute 61 8' Open Diapason 61
8' Dulciana 61 8' Stopped Diapason 61
4' Octave 61 8' Salicional 61
4' Flute Harmonique 61 8' Vox Celeste (TC) 49
8' Viol d'Orchestre 61
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Aeoline 61
8' Quintadena 61 4' Flute Traverso 61
8' Horn Flute 61 8' Clarinet 61
8' Viol Atheria 61 Tremulant
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49
4' Flute d'Amour 61 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Vox Humana 61 16' Bourdon 32
Tremulant 16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
Cathedral Chimes 20 8' Flute 12
Harp 49
Sleigh Bells 20
[Received from Jeff Scofield 2012-03-18]
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