Charity ball motion picture - movie film screenshot

A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as exhibition dancing. The set is bare, without backdrops or props. The couple's feet are not evident at times in the frame, and the dance appears to have been shot in relatively slow motion.
53737 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 24Sept1897; 53737.
Original main title lacking.
Performers: James T. Kelly, Dorothy Kent.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:34 at 22 fps.
Filmed September, 1897 in Edison's "Black Maria" studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Summary adapted from Early motion pictures.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1356) 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. 52; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, p. 234; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 330.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.