Le Coucher de la Mariée

Le coucher de la mariée

Frame from Le coucher de la mariée
Directed by Léar (Albert Kirchner)
Produced by Eugène Pirou
Starring Louise Willy
Release dates
 November 1896
Running time
 7 minutes
Country France
Language silent

Le coucher de la mariée or Bedtime for the Bride or The Bridegroom's Dilemma is a French erotic short film considered[1] to be one of the first erotic films (or "stag party films") made. The film was first screened in Paris in November 1896, within a year of the first public screening of a projected motion picture.[2] The film was produced by Eugène Pirou and directed by Albert Kirchner under the pseudonym "Léar".[3]

Scenario

Two newlyweds in front of their wedding-bed: back from the wedding, the husband goes into raptures in front of his wife, who simpers; she asks him to withdraw while she undresses; he puts a folding screen between them; she removes one by one the multiple clothes she wears (a jacket, a dress, underskirts, sub-underskirts, a blouse); the husband does not stay in place, sometimes mopping his front, sometimes reading a newspaper, sometimes having lecherous looks above the folding screen. The actors send numerous glazes towards the camera.

History of the movie

The original film has been estimated to be around 7 minutes long,[1] but it had degraded to a poor condition in the French Film Archives until it was found in 1996. Only two minutes of the film have survived, which include undressing.[4]

The film was shot on interior, in a theater set, and featured actress Louise Willy[5] who performs a striptease. It is the direct adaptation of a theater show with the same name and the same cast. The show was very popular[6] at the time, at Olympia Theater (Paris). It was a pantomime, quiet osé, but still not explicit as the actress was not fully nude. However, because only two minutes have been saved from the seven minute original reel, it is impossible to see on screen more than the striptease.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Phil De Semlyen. "Film Studies 101: The A-Z of the birth of cinema". Empire. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Ramsaye, Terry (1926), A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1926, Simon and Schuster Essandess paperback reprint, 1964, Location at Broadway and Thirty-Fourth: p. 117; 20-foot screen and gilded frame, p. 232
  3. ↑ Le coucher de la mariée: pantomime en un acte. Paris: E. Fromont, 1895
  4. ↑ Alex Duval Smith (13 November 1996). "Tremendous amount of prudishness' over porn, says journalist". London Observer Service. The Salina Journal. Retrieved 1 June 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Richard Abel, Encyclopedia of early cinema, Taylor & Francis, 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5, p. 518
  6. ↑ "Les frères Isola - Souvenirs". www.dutempsdescerisesauxfeuillesmortes.net (in French). Retrieved 2016-07-07. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)

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