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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.

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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. | add synopsis
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one-shot record of a belly dancer more

Cast

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Carmencita ... Herself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
1 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
West Orange, New Jersey, USA

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Professional dancer Carmencita was the first woman to step before a motion picture camera in America. more
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Featured in Indie Sex: Censored (2007) (TV) more

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22 out of 23 people found the following comment useful:-
one-shot record of a belly dancer, 12 August 1998
Author: Brian Fuller (bfuller@montreat.edu) from Montreat College, Montreat, NC

"Carmencita Dancing," one of a series of Edison short films featuring circus and vaudeville acts, displayed the... um... "talents" of a zaftig belly-dancer who agreed to undulate before the camera of the famous "Black Maria" studio. The dance was originally intended to be played in a Kinetoscope, a single -person arcade viewer connected to Edison's more famous invention, the phonograph. Through a pair of crude headphones, the latter device supplied an asynchronous soundtrack of "hootchie-cootchie" music. The Kinetograph camera here employed is so new -- even to its inventors -- that director Dickson has drastically "overcranked" the film, unintentionally producing one of the first examples of slow-motion. Carmencita's titillating movements were considered by many to be scandalous. Thus, the film prompted some of the earliest discussions of film censorship.

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