A photographer poses a pretty model who is dressed only in a white leotard. After he shoots her picture, she stretches.
It's a rather sensuous short for 1902, almost certainly intended for the Mutoscope, American Mutoscope & Biograph's peep-show machine -- the Biograph was the company's projection machine. The risqué image was less likely to be shown on the screen, a far more public way of viewing it.
Given the fact that the audience was going to be looking at the model, rather than the photographer, a little movement on her part was needed. There had been movies of statues; Edison shot a poor one of the Statue of Liberty. Movies of statues are not particularly cinematic.
It's a rather sensuous short for 1902, almost certainly intended for the Mutoscope, American Mutoscope & Biograph's peep-show machine -- the Biograph was the company's projection machine. The risqué image was less likely to be shown on the screen, a far more public way of viewing it.
Given the fact that the audience was going to be looking at the model, rather than the photographer, a little movement on her part was needed. There had been movies of statues; Edison shot a poor one of the Statue of Liberty. Movies of statues are not particularly cinematic.