Princess Ali / - vaudeville film

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's Circus, is filmed performing an Egyptian dance. As she dances, some musicians perform in the background to provide accompaniment.
Copyright: no reg.
Performer: Princess Ali.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:12 at 30 fps.
Filmed May 9, 1895, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange New Jersey, while Princess Ali was performing with Barnum & Bailey's Circus in Orange, New Jersey.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 184; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 7 [MI].
35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEC 8100 to FYA 1428.