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[Historical films: Variety dancing, series 4] [motion picture]
- Title
- [Historical films: Variety dancing, series 4] [motion picture]
- Publication
- 1902-1905.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZHB 4-2469 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 reel. 9 min. 193 ft. : si. b&w.; 16 mm.
- Subjects
- Motion pictures > Ki ki dance
- Belly dance
- Motion pictures > How millionaires sometimes entertain aboard their yachts
- Motion pictures > A good time with the organ grinder
- Motion pictures > Geisha girls
- Motion pictures > Karina
- Motion pictures > Just before the raid
- Cancan (Dance)
- Motion pictures > Girls dancing can-can
- Motion pictures > The giddy dancing master
- Variety dancing > United States
- Motion pictures > The Gerry Society's mistake
- Note
- Nine short films from the Historical Films Paper Print Collection in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress. Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
- Contents
- CONTENTS: Geisha girls. (1903) Summary: Three Caucasian girls dressed in Japanese kimonos perform twists and turns, imitating a geisha dance. -- The Gerry Society's mistake. (1903) Summary: Four young women are at make-up tables in a backstage dressing room preparing to perform. When a policeman and two men come in and attempt to arrest the women, the four give the men jewelry and push them out. -- The giddy dancing master. (1903) Summary: A dancing master instructs a young lady in dancing and is interrupted by a large woman. -- Girls dancing can-can. (1902) Summary: Eight women, four dressed in full-length skirts and four in bloomers and boots, perform a cancan routine. -- A good time with the organ grinder. (1903) Summary: When an organ grinder retrieves a coin tossed by a gentleman with two ladies, one of the women performs an acrobatic trick over the grinder's back. The gentleman cranks the organ while the two women dance around the organ grinder until a policeman arrives. -- How millionaires sometimes entertain aboard their yachts. (1905) Summary: On the deck of an anchored yacht, two women each dance while two men watch. Excerpt from the motion picture Dream of the race-track fiend, released Oct. 14, 1905. -- Just before the raid. (1904) Summary: Four women drink in a hotel sitting room, then join hands and dance around the table. One then climbs up on the table to dance. -- Karina. (1902) Summary: A woman dressed as a cancan dancer performs turns, raising the hem of her dress. -- Ki ki dance. (1902) Summary: Four women in filmy, trousered harem-type costumes perform a belly dance.
- Call Number
- *MGZHB 4-2469
- OCLC
- NYPY926033224-F
- Title
- [Historical films: Variety dancing, series 4] [motion picture]
- Imprint
- 1902-1905.
- Local Subject
- Variety dancing -- United States.Belly dance.Motion pictures. Geisha girls.Motion pictures. The Gerry Society's mistake.Motion pictures. The giddy dancing master.Motion pictures. Girls dancing can-can.Motion pictures. A good time with the organ grinder.Motion pictures. How millionaires sometimes entertain aboard their yachts.Motion pictures. Just before the raid.Motion pictures. Karina.Motion pictures. Ki ki dance.
- Added Author
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZHB 4-2469