Dance
, 0 min, 1901
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Director: Béla Zsitkovszky
Writer: Gyula Pekár
Cameraman: Béla Zsitkovszky
Music selected by: Aurél Kern
Dances instructed by: Cézár Smeraldi
Characters: Lidia Balogh, Ilona Berzétey, Lujza Blaha, Sári Fedák, Gyula Hegedüs, Aranka Hegyi, Korner brothers, Emilia Márkus, Margit Maróthy, Lina Nikó, Emilia Nirschy, Ilka Pálmay, Ákos Ráthonyi, Gizella Schmidek, Zoltán Szerémy, Irén Varsányi, Ferenc Vendrei, Kálmán Kenedich and the dance company of the Opera House.
The first Hungarian silent film was made in 1901 with a view to illustrating the performance of the Uránia popular science company. The motion picture did not survive, only the pictures published in the contemporary media are available as well as the photographs from which a series of postcards was printed.
Contemporary papers published some series of pictures showing some dances, but as the developed series of photographs turned out to be too tiny, they wisely sent a stand-photographer to the reception who took his own pictures. Luckily enough, the stand-photographer could even capture a photo of Gyula Pekár, the film director popping up in a picture (in one of the satirical Csárdás pictures).
(Except for the two pictures of the Palotás dance, all pictures are standing photographs.)
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