# Puce Moment > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Puce_Moment > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Puce_Moment.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puce_Moment > Source revision: 1336265652 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1949 short film by Kenneth Anger Puce Moment Title card Directed by Kenneth Anger Starring Yvonne Marquis Cinematography Curtis Harrington Music by Jonathan Halper Release date 1949 (1949) Running time 6 minutes Country United States ***Puce Moment*** is a 1949 6-minute [short](/source/Short_subject) [film](/source/Film) by [Kenneth Anger](/source/Kenneth_Anger).[1] ## Summary The film opens with a camera watching 1920s-style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. A long-lashed woman, [Yvonne Marquis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yvonne_Marquis&action=edit&redlink=1), dresses in the [puce](/source/Puce) gown and walks to her vanity to apply perfume. She lies on a [chaise longue](/source/Chaise_longue) which then begins to move around the room and eventually out to a patio. [Borzois](/source/Borzoi) appear and she prepares to take them for a walk.[2] ## Cast The only actor in the film is Yvonne Marquis, who was Anger's cousin.[3] This was her last film, and shortly after the film was made she moved to Mexico. ## Production Filmed in 1949, *Puce Moment* resulted from the unfinished short film *Puce Women*. The original soundtrack was [Verdi](/source/Verdi) opera music; in 1970, Anger re-released the film with a new psychedelic folk-rock soundtrack performed by [Jonathan Halper](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Halper&action=edit&redlink=1). The gowns used were owned by Anger's grandmother, who had been a costume designer in the silent film era.[4] The interior shots were filmed in the house of [Samson De Brier](/source/Samson_De_Brier), who later appeared in Anger's *[Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome](/source/Inauguration_of_the_Pleasure_Dome)* (1954). The exterior shots of the patio were filmed at the house of Max Rapp, who was an orchestra contractor at [Universal Pictures](/source/Universal_Pictures).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The house had been built by [Wallace Beery](/source/Wallace_Beery) in 1924 and was one of the first Hollywood Mansions in the [Hollywood Dell](/source/Hollywood_Dell%2C_Los_Angeles).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Anger attempts to recreate silent era style by using alternating camera speeds. [Curtis Harrington](/source/Curtis_Harrington) was a cinematographer on the film. The sequence where Marquis travels by chaise longue was inspired by paintings of [Florine Stettheimer](/source/Florine_Stettheimer). [5] *Heat*, c. 1919, by Florine Stettheimer, oil on canvas. This is an example of the kind of painting that inspired the chaise longue scene. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Puce Moment"](https://mubi.com/en/us/films/puce-moment). *MUBI*. Retrieved September 6, 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["How Kenneth Anger Created Camp Cinema with His Short Film, 'Puce Moment'"](https://www.popmatters.com/kenneth-anger-puce-moment-camp). *PopMatters*. August 7, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Lewis, David (2013). ["Movies: *Puce Moment* (1949)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131028021229/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/147406/Puce-Moment/overview). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. Archived from [the original](https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/147406/Puce-Moment/overview) on October 28, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2014. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Kehr, Dave (January 23, 2007). ["New DVDs: *Films of Kenneth Anger* and *Samurai Classics*"](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/movies/homevideo/23dvd.html?pagewanted=all). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. Retrieved July 27, 2014. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** *The Films of Kenneth Anger Volume 1. Puce Moment with commentary* (DVD). Fantoma. 2007. ## External links - [*Puce Moment*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041771/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Kenneth Anger Films directed Fireworks Puce Moment Eaux d'artifice Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Scorpio Rising Kustom Kar Kommandos Invocation of My Demon Brother Lucifer Rising Rabbit's Moon Books written Hollywood Babylon --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Puce Moment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puce_Moment) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puce_Moment?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.