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A nymph of the waves
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Superimposition of a woman dancing over footage of crashing waves from the rapids of Niagara Falls. The woman wears a frilly, perhaps feather-trimmed, white dress with a low-cut bodice, a matching feathered hat, white stockings, and white ballet slippers. She holds up her skirt through the entire dance, revealing her ankles and lower legs as well as a flash of a garter above the knee on her left leg. Her movements appear to be a mixture of ballet and variety-style dancing such as a cancan, including spins and toesteps on pointe. She closes with a flourish of her skirt as she executes a curtsy on pointe with one foot. |
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| Year: | 1903 |
| Genre: | Historical |
| Keywords: | Dance--United States; Ballet dancing--United States; Dancers--United States; Ballerinas--United States; Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.); Silent films; Dance; Vaudeville; Trick films; Shorts; |
| Duration: | 00:00:24 |
| Color: | No |
| Sound: | No |
| Amount of Motion: | Medium |
| Language: | English |
| Sponsor: | Thomas Edison |
| Contributing Organization: | Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division |
| Transcript Available: | No |
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| Digitizing Organization: | Library of Congress |
