First film with nudity?
for a 1960 film, could this be the first maintsream movie with nudity in it?
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Nicholas Ray's "Savage Innocents", also released in 1960 had a shot of breasts in the uncensored European release version.
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First film with nudity? Are you nuts? In "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," Rudolph Valentino showers his married mistress's bare breasts with kisses. In "The General," we see Buster Keaton's bare butt.
What "Tirez sur le Pianiste" might possibly be the first in is interrupting a kidnapping scene for the bad guys and the victims to share opinions on matters not directly relevant to the suspense. No, "Pulp Fiction" was not original in that regard.
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It was "The Cameraman" that had a shot of Keaton's rear end.
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Oh, you're right. Thanks. I know I saw his rear end somewhere.
And of course, there are probably many other films with nudity earlier than "Tirez sur le Pianiste"; I was just recalling the earliest ones I could think of off the top of my head.
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Bob le flambeur there's a brief glimpse of a woman's breasts and that was made in '56. If I could remember any of the names of the characters of that movie I would explain it more but It's been too long.
shareLet's not forget of course, since we're dealing with european cinema, Harriet Andersson in Bergman's "Summer with Monika", released in 1953.
shareI know when photography was initially invented, one of its very first implementations was pornography...not too sure with cinema though?
Also, Germaine Dulac's surrealist "Seashell & the Clergyman" (1928) shows a woman's bare breasts, not the earliest film with nudity but definitely before "Shoot the Piano Player" (1960).
F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926) had a bare-breasted woman, The Man Who Laughs (1928) showed the bare-ass of a countess.
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I think Ecstasy, from 1933, starring a young Hedy Lamarr, is considered the first film with full frontal nudity (meaning not a porno film, of course), and is worth mentioning not only for Ms. Lamarr, one of the great beauties of film history, but also because the mention earlier on this thread to Bergman's Summer with Monika and its nudity (1953) is generally seen as influenced by Bergman's awareness of Ecstasy. 1933 seems a very long time ago, but it was only 20 years before Monika.
Not to digress on the site of such a great film as Shoot the Piano Player, but a least in that regard Monika was before Shoot, and in fact Bergman was quite influential in respect of French new wave directors. They all knew about him, to be sure. Harriet Andersson's natural appearance in Monika was also quite influential, again having a direct influence away from the more glamourous and made up looks that dominated filmmaking for female performers on both sides of the Atlantic. you can see it in this film, of course, and in the relatively naturalistic look of a phenomenon like Brigitte Bardot as well.
But yes, Michelle Mercier was a great beauty, and very sexy.
There's plenty of nudity in early cinema history, which came sort of to an end in the early 30's with the introduction of the Production/Hays Code.
One very famous full nudity scene is from Tarzan finds a Mate from 1934 in which we see a completely naked Jane (stand in) doing some very artful underwater swimming. The clip can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGXdw2_6DM
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The Scarlet Empress (1934) has a montage at the beginning with naked women undergoing mediaeval torture
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Ecstasy in 1933 had skinny dipping, nude running (Hedy Lamar) AND an orgasm seen on film
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