Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
About Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
A dancer personifying Winter turns while snow falls. Alice Guy directed it at Gaumont as the fourth and last film in the 1900 series Danse des saisons. The spring, summer, and autumn reels are lost or unlocated.
Cast & crew
More about Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
Gaumont catalogued it as C370, L'Hiver: danse de la neige, at about 20 meters. The Era in London carried the seasons series by 27 October 1900. A Quebec classification record describes the surviving picture as black and white, one minute long, and without dialogue.
Themes
Preservation
The Swedish Film Institute holds a 35mm polyester print measured at 17 meters.
Notes
- The lost or unlocated companions are Le Printemps: Danse des roses, L'Eté: Danse de la moisson, and L'Automne: Danse des vendanges.
- The Swedish Film Database lists a Swedish release title, Cabaretnummer, and notes the film inside the 1900 compilation Sieurins franska bilder.
- That database credits the director as Alice Guy. The catalog credit is Alice Guy-Blaché.
Scenes
- Snow falls on the dancer playing Winter.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-danse-des-saisons)
