Marguerite Vrignault

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

A ballet teacher trains a invisible group of dancers and gets angry about their incompetence. Early film with sound.

Woman dances the polka.

On a stage in front of a painted backdrop representing a park, Blanche and Louise Mante, one dressed in a man "Incroyable" suit from the 1st Empire period, dance.

Singing "La Chanson du tambour-major"

Man and woman dance.

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

A ballet teacher trains a invisible group of dancers and gets angry about their incompetence. Early film with sound.

Woman dances the polka.

On a stage in front of a painted backdrop representing a park, Blanche and Louise Mante, one dressed in a man "Incroyable" suit from the 1st Empire period, dance.

Singing "La Chanson du tambour-major"

Man and woman dance.

Jeanne Chasles and Achille Viscusi dances.

3 women dance

Woman dances with fan

The Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre was a special pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured filmed performances presented with sound via wax cylinder recordings. Many of these short films were also presented in hand-tinted color. The performances ranged from theatre (Coquelin the eldest, Gabrielle Réjane, Sarah Bernhardt, Félicia Mallet), opera & operetta (Mariette Sully, Emile Cossira, Jeanne Hatto, Mily-Meyer, Désiré Pougaud), to café concert & music hall variety (Footit et Chocolat, Mason and Forbes, Little Tich, Brunin, Polin, Jules Moy) and dance (Blanche and Louise Mante from the Paris Opera, Carlotta Zambelli, Michel Vasquez, Rosita Mauri, Jeanne Chasles, Achille Viscusi, Christine Kerf, Cléo de Mérode).

Carlotta Zambelli dances for the camera.

Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 - 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She is seen here performing a traditonal Javanese dance.

Woman sings.

A woman dancing.

Woman sings.

A "lady" undresses for bed.

Christine Kerf as the Greek muse Terpsichore, in 1900.

Hi-jinx with a clown photographer

Man plays piano

A short film

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Guy with a Handkerchief