Die Serpentintänzerin
About Die Serpentintänzerin
A dancer billed as Ancion turns in a wide, light robe. The cloth swings out around her and folds in again as she spins. Max Skladanowsky filmed the turn as one number in his Bioscop program.
Cast & crew
More about Die Serpentintänzerin
Skladanowsky directed, produced, and photographed the short for the Wintergarten performances. Other titles on that program were Italienischer Bauerntanz, Komisches Reck, Der Jongleur Paul Petras, Das Boxende Känguruh, Akrobatisches Potpourri, Kamarinskaja, Ringkampf, and Apotheose.
Themes
Background
The Wintergarten shows of 1895 were the first film projections in Europe for a paying audience.
Making
The Skladanowsky brothers built the Bioscop and made a set of very short films to project with it.
Look
Max Skladanowsky photographed Ancion's turns for the Bioscop.
Technique
English Wikipedia says each film in the Wintergarten program lasted about six seconds and was repeated several times.
Preservation
A surviving copy runs 20 seconds in Wikidata's timing. The 1895 program films were each about six seconds and were shown more than once.
Notes
- It is also called Serpentinen Tanz.
- In 1995 the film was incorporated into Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky, a drama about the brothers and the start of projection in Germany.
- Wikidata times the surviving picture at 20 seconds.
Scenes
- Ancion spins and the robe flares to its full width.
Influenced by
- Stage serpentine dances of the 1890s
Influenced
- Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky (1995)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Serpentintänzerin.webm)
