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Le Coucher de la Marie

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'Le coucher de la marie' or 'Bedtime for the Bride' or 'The Bridegroom's Dilemma' is a French erotic short film considered to be one of the first erotic 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.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 The film was produced by Eugne Pirou and directed by Albert Kirchner under the pseudonym "Lar".[http://www.worldcat.org/title/coucher-de-la-mariee-pantomime-en-un-acte/oclc/58405392 'Le coucher de la marie: pantomime en un acte']. Paris: E. Fromont, 1895

Plot



A newlywed couple in front of their wedding-bed after their wedding. The husband goes into raptures in front of his new wife, who simpers. She asks him to withdraw while she undresses and he puts a folding screen between them. She removes one by one the many layers of 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 glances towards the camera.

History of the movie



The original film has been estimated to be around seven minutes long, 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 includes the undressing sequence.

The film was shot in a theater set, and featured actress Louise WillyRichard Abel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9cc71Uekc_EC&pg=PA518&dq=%22Louise+Willy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LDEqT9y5HsbWrQeoqLDADA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Louise%20Willy%22&f=false 'Encyclopedia of early cinema'], Taylor & Francis, 2005, , p. 518 who performs the striptease. It is the direct adaptation of a theater show with the same name and the same cast. The show was very popular at the time, at Olympia Theater (Paris). It was a pantomime, quite risqu, but still not explicit as the actress was not nude. However, because only two minutes have survived from the original seven minutes, it is impossible to see more than the striptease.

See also



* 'El Sartorio'

* List of incomplete or partially lost films

References




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