Hadj Cheriff (1894)
Edison was known to gather up famous performing acts, bring them to his studio, film them and then make cash off of them by throwing the film into the dozens of "picture palaces" throughout the country. This time we get Hadj Cheriff doing various flips and swirls for just over a minute. That's pretty much all there is as it's never quite clear what type of "act" Cheriff is trying to put on but I think this is due for a number of reasons but the main one being that this studio was so small that it really didn't allow the acts to do much. You can see this in countless films like this and especially those acts from Broadway who need an entire stage to do their thing and they just can't do it in such a small space. I'm sure this was a problem for Cheriff so this here is basically just for fans of early cinema who enjoy seeing this type of thing.