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Vue Lumière No 765 - Danse Serpentine (1896)

Dance performance, first projected in Avignon on November 25th 1896 (performer: Loïe Fuller)


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Early Cinema; Dance; Frères Lumière

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: kunthar - - May 12, 2008
Subject: The girl is Loie Fuller
and "Fuller held many patents related to stage lighting including chemical compounds for creating color gel and the use of chemical salts for luminescent lighting and garments (stage costumes US Patent 518347). Fuller was also a member of the French Astronomical Society."
Check her at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loie_Fuller

Reviewer: 1904.CC - - October 4, 2007
Subject: Hypnotic, even after over a hundered years
This dance sequence is a quite brilliant example of what you can do with the most simple technological means. Almost 100 years later, the "special effect" of the changing, hand-tinted colors, still looks great. And beyond all, the girl knows how to dance (compare this with your average MTV/youtube schmock).