Ocean Park

Thomas Edison's Carmencita, 1894:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSVcHaPrEc

Ruth Dennis c. 1894

Some of Edison's early films featured Ruth Dennis, later known as Ruth St. Denis, founder of the Denishawn School of Dancing, after working for Belasco in New York.

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/stdenis.htm

(Back to 1894)