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Skirt Dance
(189?) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: (unknown)

Edison Manufacturing Company production. / Premiered 23 April 1896 at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall in New York, New York. / [?] Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? / Early Edison subject used as part of the premiere presentation of Edison’s Vitascope motion picture projection system.

Performance: Dance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Dance: Dancers

Listing updated: 21 August 2023.

References: Blum-Silent p. 7; Ramsaye-Million pp. 227, 236a.