Directed by Eugène Pirou, 1896
41 % Decadence
118 years ago, the world saw its first pornographic film; [Le Coucher de la Mariee, 1896], the closing of the Decadence era and its evolution from painting and literature into short motion features. The short films features actress Louise Willy performing a striptease for what seems to be a solicitor of ill-repute women. From what can be seen in the black and white footage, shot in a single angle, sporadic vintage static, Louise wastes not time removing her many layers for the solicitor who sits by, first reading the paper, then flustered to the gradual exposure of her flesh.
From [Le Coucher de la Mariee], we see the length in which the pornographic film has traveled, alongside every vice nurtured by man's haunts, predilections and depravities. Fetish has also become a traveling companion to the subculture of film, gaining in value as the prostitute gains in currency upon entertaining man's most hideous compulsion.
The film is a basic basis, a rudimentary screening, somehow tapered to focus on Louise's disrobing and the gentleman caller's enjoyments, lasting only long enough to give off the impression of direction. Although a vague attempt, it was a historic one.
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