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Spanish dancers at the Pan-American Exposition / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

Other author/creatorThomas A. Edison, Inc.
Format Electronic and Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoUnited States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1901.
Description1 online resource (1 min.).
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;782579
Subject(s)
Variant title Gypsy dance at the Pan-American Exposition
Variant title Spanish dancers
Series William McKinley
Abstract The film was photographed from the area back of the midway of the Pan-American Exposition. The immediate background indicates the camera was in front of the living quarters of the gypsy dancing troupe. Several female gypsies in costume appear and dance.
Summary From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: GYPSY DANCE AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. The picture was taken in the Gypsy tent at the Pan-American Exposition and shows ten beautiful Gypsy girls executing the famous Gypsy dance that created such a furor at the Exposition. Features of the well known couchee couchee are introduced by some of the dancers. The scene is both artistic and entrancing.
General noteCopyright: Thomas A. Edison; 28Oct1901; H10111.
General noteOriginal duration: 1:18 at 15 fps.
General notePreviously published as DVD.

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