Karina motion picture - movie film screenshot

On a bare stage with a black background stands a woman with short, curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a sleeveless top, low-cut bodice, mid-calf length skirt, and layers of petticoats. Smiling at the camera, she seductively raises her skirt to reveal the multiple white petticoats, as well as her lacy, white bloomers to the knees, white tights, and a garter on her right thigh. Peering over her lifted skirt, Karina slowly turns around and then lowers to her knees and leans back, circling with her upper body and arms. Still holding up the skirt, she returns to standing. With her back to the viewer, she bend backwards at the waist so that she looks at the camera, and dramatically covers her face with one arm. Karina then stands back up and turns to the camera. Lifting her skirt, she performs a "dance" consisting of circles, leg lifts, and twirls.
"A woman dressed as a can-can dancer stands in the center of the stage and, for the full extent of the film, she raises the hem of her dress as she twirls around"--Early motion pictures.
H22556 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 14Oct1902; H22556.
Original main title lacking.
Performer: Karina.
Camera, Robert K. Bonine?
Duration: 0:23 at 18 fps.
Filmed in 1898 in Biograph's New York City studio.
Biograph production no. 541.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0434) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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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. 173; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 562; Biograph production records, American Mutoscope production log, production no. 541.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Paper print roll lacking suffix.