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[Historical films: Variety dancing, series 5]

Title: [Historical films: Variety dancing, series 5] [videorecording]
Publication: 1897-1904.

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Request Appointment 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 4-2470	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Moving image	Use in library	*MGZIC 9-6311	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (12 min.) : si., b&w; 3/4 in.

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Note

Ten short films from the Historical Films Paper Print Collection in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.

Contents

CONTENTS: Leander sisters. (1897) Producer: Thomas A. Edison. Summary: In a gymnasium or hall, two young girls perform a dance routine while many people watch from behind a rail in the background. -- Little Lillian, toe danseuse. (1903) Producer: Thomas A. Edison. Summary: In front of a Turkish mosque set, a young woman appears in four successive costumes during the course of her dance. -- Moulin Rouge dancers. (1902) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary: Four women dressed in the costume of the era perform a cancan. -- Neptune's daughters. (1903) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary: Four women, wearing garlands of flowers, dance in unison before a film background of the sea. -- A nymph of the waves. (1903) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary: Catherina Bartho performs her "Speedway" dance against a film background of ocean waves. -- Princess Rajah dance. (1904) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary: A young lady dances in several styles, drawing from Turkish contortions, ballet pirouettes, and burlesque. The finale is a balancing act in which she holds a chair in her teeth. -- Sailors waltzing. (1902) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary: On an American battleship, about ten couples, sailors in tropical whites, waltz while a company of marines observes. -- Theatre hats off. (1903) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary
A woman dances at a vaudeville show (audience heads block a view of her feet). -- A "tough" dance. (1902) Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. Summary: Kid Foley and Sailor Lil imitate the French apache dance. -- Uncle Josh at the moving picture show. (1902) Producer: Thomas A. Edison. Summary: A Parisian stage dancer introduces the moving picture which so excites the viewer that he jumps on stage and tears the screen down.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-6311

OCLC

NYPY926033274-F

Title

[Historical films: Variety dancing, series 5] [videorecording]

Imprint

1897-1904.

Local Subject

Variety dancing -- United States.

Apache dancers.

Motion pictures. Leander sisters.

Motion pictures. Little Lillian, toe danseuse.

Motion pictures. Moulin Rouge dancers.

Motion pictures. Neptune's daughters.

Motion pictures. A nymph of the waves.

Motion pictures. Princess Rajah dance.

Motion pictures. Sailors waltzing.

Motion pictures. Theatre hats off.

Motion pictures. A "tough" dance.

Motion pictures. Uncle Josh at the moving picture show.

Added Author

Bartho, Catherina, dancer.

Kid Foley, dancer.

Sailor Lil, dancer.

Princess Rajah, dancer.

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. Producer

Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-6311

*MGZHB 4-2470 Additional copy ; 1 film reel (287 ft.) 16mm.

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