The film:

On a floral background, a beautiful dancer lifts the edges of her long flowing dress over her head and starts dancing. In her hands she holds two sticks that allow her to move her fabric wings, according to a dance style launched by Loïe Fuller, the dancer idol of the theaters on the first twentieth century. While the woman dances, the dress changes its color continuously, till as, at the end of the film, the veils of the dress wave with the colors of the French flag. The effect, doomed to amaze even now, was obtained thanks to the patience and the ability of the women workers who painted the positive copies frame by frame. 

The film restoration:

Danse de l’éventail was digitally preserved by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino from a hand-colored nitrate positive 19 meters long without intertitles, deposited at the Museo by Fabrizio Pangrazi’s family.

The preservation work was carried out in 2012 at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna.

Link Vimeo Cineteca MNC:

https://vimeo.com/397197157 

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