Little Egypt (Fatima Djemille) 1896 Edison

Fatima Djemille (1890-3/14/1921) appeared at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It is said but not confirmed that this Fatima was the subject of two early films, Edison's Coochee Coochee Dance (1896) and Fatima (1897). performed at Coney Island for many years. "La danse du ventre" (basically meaning belly dance in French) and in Turkish it's called Oryantal Tansi (again, Oriental Dance.) Early Americans called it "The Abdomen Dance" or "Stomach Dance." Finally most people (American) call it the "Belly Dance" which supposedly was misnamed when the first Little Egypt (Farida Mazar - Spyropoulos) danced for the infamous Sol Bloom at the Egyptian Theater, it was he who coined the term "Belly Dance." Little Egypt is said to have danced to the song "Streets of Cairo" as one of her songs. There would be many Little Egypts to follow. for more info on Little Egypt or others see: http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d... or on Belly Dance and more: http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z... ------------------------Music used in this clip is by: "Cartoon Battle" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-.... original Y/T clip credit: Erifily Niko· - thank you!