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Beginning of the Serpentine Dance (1908)
Directed by Segundo de Chomón
Fantasy · 4m
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a minuet and their costumes change in a sudden. A man enters and seems interested in what he sees, casts a spell and everything disappears. Transforming himself into the devil, the visitor takes the violinist with him to hell, where he creates a large piece of silk out of a cauldron. The fabric unrolls, revealing a young woman in a silk dress that starts dancing the serpentine. While she dances, other women join in a synchronized ballet, before all of them vanish into bursts of flames.
Cast
Max Linder
Crew
- Director
- Segundo de Chomón
Details
- Original title
- Création de la serpentine
- Release date
- 1908-09-03
- Runtime
- 4m
- Genres
- Fantasy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Pathé Frères