Carmencita (film)

• Carmencita

Carmencita is an American short film directed by William KL Dickson. He is part of a series of short films about show and vaudeville performances.

Action

An ever- smiling dancer in a hoop skirt leads to a wooden stage at a dance.

Background

The Actress Carmencita was a professional belly dancer and the first woman who was standing in front of a film camera.

Filmed in the U.S. state of New Jersey film was made in six days of the " Edison Manufacturing Company ." It was intended that the film in special viewing devices, so-called Kinetoskopen, was used. This device was developed by Thomas Edison. These headphones were served, from which came asynchronous music.

The used here Come camera was so new that director Dickson, who worked as chief engineer at Edison, not well get along and inadvertently created the first slow-motion sequences in film history with her.

Some movements of the dancer were perceived by some people as offensive, so that the film sparked some of the earliest discussions on film censorship.

Trivia

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