This is another very early short film from the Skladanowsky brothers. It features a serpentine dancer, a quite common choice of depiction in the early years of film and even if this one does not have the colors from Dickson's serpentine dancer from the same year, it's still a joy to watch Ancion move so elegantly and see her dress change into the most stunning shapes, even if it's a very very short film even for that time.
Max Skladanowsky is the German claimant to inventing motion pictures -- he was first in the game in Germany, at any rate. Although he did not put as long and sustained an effort as Edison in the US or Lumiere in France, he did one of the standard movies of the first decade of film: the serpentine dance, in which a woman in flowing robes with long sleeves whirls around.
I think you will find there is something very definitely noteworthy about the film version of this that exists in that it is an entirely modern fake-up by Wim Wenders for his 1995 film Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky. As far as I am aware, the original Skladanosky film no longer exists.
