Loïe Fuller
About Loïe Fuller
A bat flies, lands, and turns into a woman. She does a serpentine dance, the skirt shifting as she turns, and then she vanishes.
Cast & crew
More about Loïe Fuller
The Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation lists the maker as anonymous and dates the short 1902, at 1 minute 22 seconds. This record's year is 1901. Some prints were stencil-colored in the Barcelona workshop of Segundo de Chomón and Julienne Mathieu. The title uses Loïe Fuller's name. The foundation does not say the dancer is Fuller.
Themes
Technique
The opening is two tricks in a row: a bat flies and lands, then turns into the dancer. Some prints were stencil-colored afterward.
Preservation
A print survives, including a stencil-colored version.
Notes
- Fuller built the serpentine dance on stage in the 1890s. Her autobiography does not say she made this film.
- Pathécolor on some copies is the work of Chomón and Julienne Mathieu.
- The foundation's date is 1902, against the 1901 year on this record.
- The opening tricks are a bat that flies and lands, then becomes the dancer.
Scenes
- The bat lands and is replaced by the dancer.
- She turns until the skirt fills the frame, then she is gone.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Loie Fuller (1901).ogv)
