Serpentine Dance
Danse serpentine
Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Documentary Film
France
1897
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
Movement, movement: In the early days of cinema, audiences were hungry for pictures bursting with vitality. For many film pioneers, the subject par excellence was the serpentine dance, which produced graceful shifting patterns by means of ample veils. The Lumière brothers additionally had the film hand-coloured, frame by frame, reinforcing the vivid expression of the dynamic body geometries.
Credits
Director
Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière
Cinematographer
Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière
Producer
Louis Lumière, Auguste Lumière