Cinema is a window to immortality. The greatest theatrical actors and performers of the nineteenth century, however special they may have been, are now entirely lost to us. Of their greatness, we must take the word of their contemporaries. In the 1890s, all that began to change. 'Crissie Sheridan (1897),' an Edison film directed by William K.L. Dickson, is a brief snippet of a serpentine dance performance by the titular dancer, and, great or not, her performance still exists a century later for her great-great-great-great grandchildren to enjoy. The dance routine was an imitation of the Gaiety Girls, a chorus line of "respectable, elegant young ladies" from England, who attained considerable success in musical theatre. Flourishing a magnificent costume in all directions, Sheridan is almost completely hidden behind the twisting, pulsating fabrics of her dress. Other dance-orientated curios you might like to track down include 'A Nymph of the Waves (1900)' and 'Neptune's Daughters (1900),' both directed by Frederick S. Armitage.