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SERPENTINE DANCE

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Year
1895
Reference
F2909
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1895
Reference
F2909
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
United States of America
Categories
Performance
Duration
0:00:58
Production company
Edison Manufacturing Co.
Credits
Camera: Wkl Dickson
Camera: William Heise
Dancer: Annabelle Moore
Dancer: [ Carmengita ]

A “Skirt Dance” (a popular vaudeville attraction) performed by Annabelle Moore.

This film was shown at Wellington’s first public screening of motion pictures, held at the Exchange Hall, 28 October 1896.

“But the palm among the pictures must be accorded to a skirt dance..., the limelight effects of which were beautifully rendered, while the grace of the evolutions far exceeded any dancing we have seen in New Zealand.” (Evening Post, 29 October, 1896)