Dance, Franchonetti Sisters /
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
moving image
Filmed vaudeville acts. lcgft
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United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company,
1903.
eng
Three young women with dark, curly hair stand on a stage with a black background and patterned carpet or tile underfoot. They wear tights, ballet shoes, and frilly dresses to the knee with multiple petticoats and ruffled drawers. They begin by raising their right legs up by their heads, and then perform a dance with a variety of kicks and leg movements, their hands either in the air or pulling up their skirts. The sisters also grab their right legs again and hop in a circle, then do cartwheels and land on the floor in the splits. Jumping back to their feet, the women twirl in circles and around each other in circles in what appears to be a type of pirouette, while holding up their skirts and showing their bloomers in a manner similar to the cancan.
"The French quadrille dance by a popular team of vaudeville artists"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 24Apr1903; H30723.
Original main title lacking.
Duration: 0:23 at 16 fps.
Biograph production no. 217.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0362) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 72-73; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 244; American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 56; Biograph production logs.
Performers: Franchonetti Sisters.
Filmed in the Biograph New York City studio, probably in April,1897.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Franchonetti Sisters.
Quadrille (Dance)--United States.
Dancing--United States.
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Dance, Franchonetti Sisters
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