''Die Serpentintänzerin'' (also known as ''Serpentinen Tanz'') is an

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short

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silent

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, directed and produced by

Max Skladanowsky Max Skladanowsky (30 April 1863 – 30 November 1939) was a German people, German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display a moving pict ...

, one of the German-born brothers responsible for inventing the

Bioscop The Bioscop is a movie projector developed in 1895 by German inventors and filmmakers Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil Skladanowsky (1866–1945). History The Bioscop used two loops of 54-mm films without a side perforation. This caused poo ...

. It was one of a series of films produced to be projected by a

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and formed part of the Wintergarten Performances, the first projections of film in

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to a paying audience. The film titles for the initial program were: '' Italienischer Bauerntanz'', '' Komisches Reck'', ''Serpentinen Tanz'', '' Der Jongleur Paul Petras'', '' Das Boxende Känguruh'', '' Akrobatisches Potpourri'', '' Kamarinskaja'', '' Ringkampf'' and '' Apotheose''. Each film lasted approximately six seconds and would be repeated several times. In 1995 this film was incorporated into '' Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky'', a drama telling the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers and the early days of German film projection.

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* 1895 films 1895 short films 1890s German films Films of the German Empire German silent short films Black-and-white documentary films German short documentary films 1890s short documentary films Films directed by Max Skladanowsky German black-and-white films 1890s dance films {{1890s-Germany-film-stub