Lina Esbrand dances the Serpentine dance,This was a dance in which the dancer wears long, flowing robes and swaths of cloth she maneuvers with her hands as she twirls back and forth. It was a popular subject for early films, often hand-tinted. The earliest example seems to be SERPENTINE DANCE (1895), in which the Edison Company recorded Annabella Moore doing it. Other film makers did versions of it, one as late as 1909, when Segundo de Chomon recorded an unnamed dancer in a short film.It's very pretty and quite satisfactory as a short film; it is a study in pure motion. This one is a nice version too, even if it was nothing particularly original when Alice Guy directed it.