Carmencita (film)

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Movie
Original title Carmencita
Carmencita.jpg
Country of production United States
Publishing year 1894
length 21 seconds
Rod
Director William KL Dickson
production William KL Dickson
camera William Heise
occupation

Carmencita is a US-produced silent film by the Scottish inventor and film pioneer William KL Dickson from 1894. It is part of a series of short films by the Edison Manufacturing Company about circus and vaudeville performances and features the Spanish dancer Carmen Dauset Moreno (Carmencita) with a program with which she had performed at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York since February 1890 . The film historian Charles Musser Carmencita was the first woman to appear in an Edison Studios film, and possibly the first woman in American film history, to appear on camera, according to Carmencita.

action

A constantly smiling dancer in a hoop skirt performs a dance on a wooden stage.

background

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company . With the cinematograph and the kinetoscope, Dickson developed the first usable devices for recording and viewing moving images in Thomas Alva Edison's workshops . It was filmed between March 10 and March 16, 1894 in the Black Maria film studio in West Orange (New Jersey). The camera used here was so new that director Dickson, who worked as chief engineer at Edison, did not get on well with it and inadvertently created the first slow-motion sequences in film history.

The actress Carmencita was a professional belly dancer. It came from Spain and first appeared in the United States in August 1889. Some of the dancer's movements were found offensive, so the film sparked some of the earliest discussions about film censorship.

The Internet Movie Database indicates a film length of 15.24 meters. At 30 frames per second, the film lasts 21 seconds. It was shot in a 35mm format with a 1.33: 1 aspect ratio. It was planned that the film would be used in special viewing devices , so-called kinetoscopes . In addition, headphones were handed out, from which asynchronous music played.

Trivia

Carmencita is the first title listed in the IMDb with the title number tt0000001 .

Full length movie

literature

  • Charles Musser: Edison motion pictures 1890–1900 , 1997, p. 94

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