Danse serpentine
The Serpentine Dance
Synopsis
A woman enters the stage and starts to dance and move around. In the process she smoothly shifts between different shapes which she forms by holding the edges of her dress in a number of positions. Simultaneously the colours of her dress alternate. The film depicts Loïe Fuller, the woman who invented the dance for the stage, where the colours of her dress changed because of the different angles in which the light hits the fabric of her dress. To reproduce this effect the Lumière brothers shot the dance in black and white and later had the film hand coloured frame by frame.
Director: Cinématographe Lumière
Country: France
Year: 1897
Production: Cinématographe Lumière
Length: 1 minute (at 16 fps)
Image/ Sound: colour/silent
Music: none
Projection format: 35mm, 1,33:1
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