Saharet Performs the Bolero
About Saharet Performs the Bolero
The variety dancer Saharet performs a bolero, in a hand-tinted short directed by Alice Guy. Side dancers in yellow dresses share the floor. The film runs two minutes and was the sort of turn dropped into a mixed vaudeville bill.
Cast & crew
More about Saharet Performs the Bolero
Alice Guy filmed Saharet for Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont. The short is hand-tinted. A 1905 date is the one used by French-side accounts and by the filmography of forgotten Australian performers; IMDb's title page also carries 1907.
Themes
Making
The short was made to sit inside a vaudeville program, between live acts, rather than as a story picture.
Technique
The print is hand-tinted, with the yellow of the side dancers' dresses laid in by hand.
Preservation
A hand-tinted print survives. It is the Saharet performance film still in circulation. Her later starring pictures are listed as lost.
Notes
- IMDb lists the French title as Saharet, boléro and the English title as Saharet Performs the Bolero.
- The tinting includes yellow dresses on dancers beside Saharet.
- Later German features with Saharet, including Im goldenen Käfig (1912), are treated as lost. This Guy short is the performance film that survives.
- Franz von Stuck painted her around 1906.
Scenes
- Saharet kicks through the bolero while the tinted dresses of the other dancers stay in frame.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-saharet-bolro)
