Fatima, aka "Little Egypt", shakes her stuff for the Edison cameras.
I just looked at this old movie as it was presented on the "Movie Museum" show from the early 1960s. They showed two versions of the movie. The first was the screened version, with what looked like two little picket fences strategically placed to not shock Victorian prudery. The second was the uncensored version, in which the cootch dancer's belly button and covered breasts can be seen. She's pretty good.
Fatima, also known as "Little Egypt", was Fahreda Mazar Spyropoulos. She was born about 1871. She seems to have first performed the belly dance for American audiences in Tombstone Arizona. She did the dance at the 1893 Chicago Fair, where she did not give Mark Twain a heart attack, then went on a tour of Europe. She also did the belly dance at the 1933 World's Fair and died in 1937.
