Carmencita (1894)

Directed by

William Kennedy Dickson

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film from 1894. It shows the dancer Carmencita performing a routine from her vaudeville act.

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What happens

Carmencita is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish inventor credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison. The film is titled after the dancer who features in it. This film is one of a series of Edison short films featuring circus and vaudeville acts. It features the dancer Carmencita going through a routine she had been performing at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City since February 1890. According to film historian Charles Musser, Carmencita was the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and may have been the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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