Fatima's Dance

Vintage silver print glossy fiber 8 x 10 inch photograph depicting a still from the short silent film "Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance." Created and published by Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1896.

"Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance" (Thomas Edison, 1896) was the first movie to be censored with grid-like pattern of white lines to cover certain areas (in 1907) and it’s one of the earliest existing film records of an authentic Middle Eastern dance artist.

Image circa 1898; printed in the second half of the 20th century as part of the American Heritage Publishing Archive.

Verso bears original handwritten ID notations and credit stampings. In very good condition.

Provenance: From the American Heritage Publishing Archives.