Carmencita (1894)

Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.

Director:

William K.L. Dickson

Stars:

Carmencita

Cast

Cast overview:
Carmencita	...	Herself

Storyline

Performing on what looks like a small wooden stage, wearing a dress with a hoop skirt and white high-heeled pumps, Carmencita does a dance with kicks and twirls, a smile always on her face.

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Plot Keywords:

dance | dancer | ballet | one word title | performer name in title | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Short

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Also Known As:

Carmencita - spanyol tánc

Filming Locations:

West Orange, New Jersey, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Edison Manufacturing Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

1 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Professional dancer, Carmencita was the first woman to step before a motion picture camera in the United States of America.

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Connections

Featured in Indie Sex: Censored (2007)

User Reviews

First Dance

Watching a film like this, it becomes fairly obvious that from the very first days of the cinema the camera was to be given a voyeuristic male eye. Filmed before projectors had been invented, this 24-second short would have been viewed in a dedicated parlour through one of Edison's kinetoscopes. It's a simple film of one woman dancing in front of a black screen. She was quite famous in her day, apparently, but she isn't particularly graceful here. The film was probably shot at Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange. It was banned in some places because of the 'daring' display of leg - and has the distinction of being title number 0000001 in IMDb's listings