Imperial Japanese dance / - vaudeville film

"A charming representation of The Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. 45 feet"--Edison films catalog.
Copyright: no reg.
Performers: Sarashe Sisters.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:28 at 24 fps.
Filmed ca. October-November 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio, in West Orange, New Jersey.
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Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 153; Raff & Gammon. Price list of films, ca. June 1895, p. 2 [MI]; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 10 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 53 [MI].
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPB 9182 to FZA 2397.