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randy_byers ([personal profile] randy_byers) wrote2009-10-27 02:03 pm

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The date for this Edison Manufacturing Company short called "Annabelle - Serpentine Dance" and featuring Annabelle Moore is listed variously as 1894 and 1895. You can see the whole 36 second film on CastTV. Further evidence that a costume can be a special effect.

[identity profile] kdotdammit.livejournal.com 2009-10-27 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Incredibly lovely and awesome -- the still and the film. Thanks!

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2009-10-27 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The first time I saw that still I had no idea what I was looking at.

[identity profile] kproche.livejournal.com 2009-10-27 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
MaryAnn Kappa did a reproduction of one of Loie Fuller's very similar performances in the Costume-Con 26 Historical Masquerade.

http://www.costume-con.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=9243

[identity profile] replyhazy.livejournal.com 2009-10-28 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Halfway through that video it clearly cuts to Loie Fuller -- it's not the same girl. She pioneered the "serpentine dance" and danced only with white silks, using lighting events and projections to color them.

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2009-10-28 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. On the film the colors are produced by hand-tinting, since there wasn't any color film yet at the time, but they were probably trying to reproduce the effect of the live show.