Future screen goddess Rita Hayworth makes her screen debut in this Vitagraph short subject La Fiesta. Of course Rita wasn't indicating all that much about what her future would be as she was only 8 years old.
Rita was then Margarita Carmen Cansino part of The Dancing Cansinos family dancing troupe and The Cansinos were part of a large production number from Carmen. Playing the lead was Anna Case of the Metropolitan Opera company and she does a mean Carmen.
Not much to tell her it's just a filmed record of a stage presentation of an operatic aria. But it was out a year before The Jazz Singer and this the brothers Warner showing some of their experimentation in sound.
One star makes a debut, one opera singer's art preserved.
