Annabelle - Serpentine Dance (1894, silent, DVD) [Edison]

[OverroseD]

This was the first coloured movie, wasn't it?

[Shiggity123]

Yeah, I slept with that chick.

[EkseteraEksetera]

Beautiful, i love the hand coloured film.

[NESHero]

And who is Emilie Autumn?

[ryanmshepard92]

So, is this the first color film?

[ChrisGnosis]

hand painted color film is such a hard concept to think about

Film reel is tiny

[haylin13]

AHH!!! i love it!

[bnnycakes]

i could do this

[TeaTimeTwins]

Oh, well it's so hypnotic !! <3

EA, please my dear, please, come to germany, too !!

Your loyal PlagueRat's are missing you very very bad !! :,(

[LunaSilverShine]

Emilie Autumn sent me here too! Never seen this before but as a learner belly dancer i notice that this is basically like the Isis Wings props used, except in a different way, much faster performance with more swirling and lots of leg kicking too which doesn't happen in belly dance. Wonder if the Bloody Crumpets will really be incorperating this into the show?

[TheSinful92]

that's actually kinda cool

[ThornoftheRose1993]

EA sent me here :)

[BobigailE]

Yes, EA sent me here... but, how stunning is this? Its entrancing.

[prowlcat]

Thumbs up if Emilie Autumn Sent you here lol

[HotPerogi]

uh, is she supposed to have horribly bent legs when she does the kicks? i duno, that part looks kinda terrible to me.

[PhillyNonSequitur]

I've got a pocket full of nickles! Where do I sign up?

[UtahJazzAK47]

That was hot!

[MrXalexer]

I thought the first color film was in 1906 and BOY WAS I WRONG!

[arbiterjei]

The world has changed so much since them. For some reason this brings tears to my eyes

[SandxMastah]

@arbiterjei Me too. =[ I'd have much rather lived in the early 90s than today, and I'm 17. I hate the world today, and I hate the people in it.

[mhyymh]

@SandxMastah me too

[DanielleTodd1985]

Does any one know where i can download a copy of this- i need a copy for a presentation!!!

Thanks.

[sliversophie]

force downloaded

[patoman881]

The frames had to be hand colored-one by one-and Toulouse Lautrec made a pastel of Loie Fuller doing this same dance during the same period:-)

[theguyof1900]

glad you understand now im not 140 im 16.

[theguyof1900]

I know i was joking.

[theguyof1900]

I remember going to the movie house too see this film back in 1894 i was about 25 years old at the time & you pard me singering but it only chost a nickol to get in how about that.

[EFFANDJEFF]

Oh yes, the kinetoscope parlours on Broadway. Those were the days weren't they?

You and I must be 130 years old now.

[theguyof1900]

i was joking hhhaaa im 16 for real.

[KoroOutbreak]

There was no such thing as "slow motion" on the Lumiere. It was hand cranked, so the camera man set the speed of the camera with his own timing.

[Neurozumim]

this was done at Black Maria by William Dickson, nothing to do with Lumière.

[rajahua]

@KoroOutbreak

this movie wasn't made by Lumiere. it was made by Edison Studios using Edison's kinetoscope.

[bluesrunthegame]

I remember watching this years ago on The Short List and being absolutely transfixed. I still love it so much.

[anarchohipster]

Also, I am not actually Anarchohipster. Sorry for the mistake. And I meant "beginning", not begging. Still, the question stands. What is that clip?

[anarchohipster]

This is not the clip at the begging and end of "100 Years at the Movies". That clip shows a line of butterfly dancers chasing a man. It seems Asian, perhaps Japanese. Can anyone identify that film?

[eriskos]

El senador Bradley prohíbe una película del Cinetoscopio de Edison, la Danza serpentina, la bailarina Carmencita muestra sus partes inferiores. Primer caso de censura de las "vistas animadas" ¿?

[mikeyman211]

Am I correct in recalling that this was recorded black and white and hand-tinted later?

[shortyblackwell]

yes, and the color is quite vibrant, isn't it?

[mikeyman211]

If I was the one given the job of colouring frame by frame i would make sure she slowly changed colour like a chamelian dancing or sumthing.