Sunday, December 6, 2009

Serpentine Dance

filmed in 1896 by the Lumiere Brothers (Auguste Lumière (1862-1954) and Louis Lumière (1864-1948)

Inspired by dancer Loie Fuller's famed skirt dances, in which colored lights projected onto her billowing garments, this film (and others like it) was hand-tinted to achieve similar affects. Fuller's solo was mesmerizing, and her copycat film subjects no less so.


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