Let me start this review by saying that I am not 100% sure if I actually watched this film here. Loie Fuller appeared in other films as well and serpentine dance was a famous motive to put on screen back then. I think I did though. This is a very early silent (too bad we cannot yet hear the music she is dancing to) short film, only runs for not even 50 seconds. It is not only early for our standards today as this was made almost 120 years ago, but also for the standards of French filmmaker Georges Méliès for whom this film was a pretty early career effort as well. The title says it all. We see a woman performing the serpentine dance. This is a black-and-white film in the original. Do not be fooled by versions that were changed later on so there's color in it. This was actually a way to make the film more interesting, but also a way in which they changed it for the unrealistic. The dancer was wearing the same outfit during the entire film, yet they changed it from one color to another several times. As a whole, it's not a particularly memorable movie, even if the dancing looks fairly elegant. Méliès has done better.
Review of Danse serpentine
