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About this film

A very rare Dutch selection from Edison Blue Amberol cylinder #9662, performed by Napoleon Christiaan (Nap) de la Mar (1878-1930), a Dutch actor and director. To have recorded something like this in this within the USA at the time of around 1912 would have caused nothing short of a scandal. Isadora Duncan was an American dancer who scandalized America with her modern dance interpretations, dancing her "Dance of the Seven Veils" in a flesh colored bodysuit, which gave the audience the distinct impression that she was totally naked. Against any doubts of this theory, legal action was taken against sexually related or so called 'indecent' cylinder recordings by the Comstock laws. "Russell Hunting was prosecuted under these broad definitions of vice and obscenity." -Actionable Offenses, Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s, Archeophone Records (ARCH 1007), 2007. The strait-laced US public media is another good example for what might have happened in 1912. Here is a partial translation: Bij Isadora Duncan betaalt men een pop of tien (To see Isadora Duncan you need to pay about 10 guldens) Om de opwindende danseres d'r blote benen te zien (to see the thrilling dancer's naked leg…

Directors & creators

Nap de la Mar

Subjects

cylinder record; dutch; nederlands; cabaret

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