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Latina, dislocation act - vaudeville film

Latina, dislocation act - vaudeville film

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Opens with a repeat of the last scene in "Latina, contortionist." In a medium shot from the bust up, Latina faces the camera and interlaces her fingers with her arms held out in front of her, palms towards the camera and elbows pointed out. In that position, she raises her arms over and behind her head and then down her back, dislocating her shoulders in order to achieve that motion. She then turns her back to the camera, with her hands still locked behind her, and slowly brings her locked arms up and over her head; the viewer can clearly see her shoulder joints dislocate in the process. She turns back to face the camera as her arms continue to return to their starting position in front of her. Latina closes by unlacing her fingers and spreading her arms with a flourish.
"Mlle. Latina, whom Eugene Sandow characterizes as a type of "the perfect woman," is a more than ordinary contortionist, and saves a rather repellant specialty by the pleasant manner in which she performs her work. This little lady does her work in a clever and most finished style, her costumes are always bright, clean, and attractive looking. "--New York clipper, December 26, 1903.
H68886 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 21Nov1905; H68886.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Performer: Mlle. Latina.
Duration: 0:23 at 16 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0853) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
This film does not appear under this title in the Biograph production log. It appears to have been shot at the same time as "Latina, contortionist". "Latina, contortionist-act-with-rings," (Biograph production no. 3112) filmed on Nov., 15, 1905, may have been split into two films and copyrighted as: "Latina, contortionist" and "Latina, dislocation act".
Filmed in the Biograph New York City studio, probably on Nov. 15, 1905.
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. 178; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910; Biograph production logs; New York clipper, 12-26-1903, p. 5.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.

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