A butterfly dance....

Still from Annabelle Moore (1878-1961) Butterfly
Dance, 1895. Hand-coloured

Annabelle Moore (1878-1961) dances...
first 'Butterfly Dance'...

Early cinema's most prolific star, Annabelle Moore (later Annabelle
Whitford, and finally Annabelle Whitford Moore Buchan) made
several films for Edison and Biograph between 1894 and 1897
The Serpentine Dance, Butterfly Dance and Sun Dance were often
hand-coloured and enjoyed such popularity that they frequently
wore out, necessitating many reprintings and several refilmings.
She was a follower of Loïe Fuller

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'Metamorphosis of the Butterfly' - A still from a restored
Edison film, of Annabelle's Butterfly dance
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Annabelle Moore
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A scene from the hand-colored 1907 film,
'Farfalle' (Italian for ‘butterfly’)
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