At the Floral Ball
About At the Floral Ball
Mademoiselle Lally and Mademoiselle Julyett, dancers from the Olympia, perform a ballroom dance for the camera. There is no story. The surviving piece of the film is stencil-colored.
Cast & crew
More about At the Floral Ball
French Wikipedia credits Alice Guy with Au bal de Flore, a Gaumont documentary short released in 1900. The French page times it at two minutes and lists it as public domain.
Themes
Technique
The surviving fragment was colored with stencils rather than left as plain black and white.
Preservation
A stencil-colored fragment survives. French Wikipedia lists the film as public domain.
Notes
- The dancers are identified as Mesdemoiselles Lally and Julyett of the Olympia.
- French Wikipedia notes that the film called Au bal de Flore in Gaumont's 2008 DVD set Le cinéma premier 1897-1913, volume 1, appears to be the picture otherwise known as Gavotte directoire.
- What survives has been colored by stencil.
Scenes
- Lally and Julyett dance, and the print is colored by stencil.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-au-bal-de-flore)
