Name: Danse serpentine
Genre: Short
Released: 1896-11-25
Duration: 1 min
Rating: 6.1

No one has watched this film for the very good reason that it does not survive. Virtually everyone made versions of Loie Fuller's famous dance (none of them featuring Loie Fuller) including Méliès but the version that survives in a hand-coloured version is by the Lumières. Méliès' version is, as far as one knows, lost.

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