Film, Video Turkish dance, Ella Lola
About this Item
Title
- Turkish dance, Ella Lola
Summary
- A young, dark-haired woman performs a period "Oriental" dance (commonly known as a belly dance) with some Turkish styling. She performs distinctive dance movements that include shoulder shimmies with pelvic movements and several foot patterns, side traveling movements with pelvic circles, a slow pelvic circle and a front pelvic lock, and paddle turns with various arm gestures. Her dance costume consists of a two-layered skirt to the knee, a hip belt with fringe, a chemise-like shirt under a fitted vest, several layers of necklaces and front decoration, white stockings, white--perhaps ballet--shoes, and a glittering fitted cap.
Names
- Lola, Ella, performer.
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1898.
Headings
- - Belly dance
- - Dancers--United States
Genre
- Filmed vaudeville acts
- Silent films
- Short films
- Nonfiction films
Notes
- - 59210 U.S. Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 7Oct1898; 59210.
- - Original main title lacking.
- - Dancer: Ella Lola.
- - Duration: 0:29 at 26 fps.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 1347) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- - Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
- - Summary description provided by dance ethnologist Michelle Forner, 5/22/1996.
- - Filmed in September, 1898 in Edison's "Black Maria" studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
- - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- - Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 339; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 470.
- - Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
- - 35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEC 2235 to FYA 1243.
Medium
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (25 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (47 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (25 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (47 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 4361 (viewing print)
- FYA 1243 (viewing print)
- FRA 1500 (dupe neg pic)
- FPE 7907 (dupe neg pic)
- Box 0001B (paper pos)
- Box 5266F (paper pos, copy 2)
Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 96509503
Online Format
- video
- image