Beginning of the Serpentine Dance

• Movies
• 1908-06-26
• FR
• Released
• 0h 4m
• FR
• Fantasy

• 4.8
• 4
• Trailer

Production

Pathé Frères

Storyline

In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a minuet and their costumes change in a sudden. A man enters and seems interested in what he sees, casts a spell and everything disappears. Transforming himself into the devil, the visitor takes the violinist with him to hell, where he creates a large piece of silk out of a cauldron. The fabric unrolls, revealing a young woman in a silk dress that starts dancing the serpentine. While she dances, other women join in a synchronized ballet, before all of them vanish into bursts of flames.