Nudity in film
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Nudity in film has been a topic of discussion and debate since the beginning of film as a medium. It may be obvious or merely suggestive, such as when a person appears to be naked but is covered by a
Jayne Mansfield topless in Promises! Promises! (1963)
Sarah Bernhardt photographed nude by Nadar
![After the Ball (1897) is one of the earliest films to simulate nudity.[better source needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s%2C_Apres_le_bal_%28Star_Film_128%2C_1897%29.jpg/500px-M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s%2C_Apres_le_bal_%28Star_Film_128%2C_1897%29.jpg)
After the Ball (1897) is one of the earliest films to simulate nudity.[better source needed]
Amphetamine (2010)
Nude swimming
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Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. "Skinny dipping" is a colloquial term for nude swimming.
Nudity in film
…means of distribution and were only shown in private until the 1970s. 20th century films often depicted nude boys at a time when boys often engaged in nude swimming and used communal showers. The 1960 film Pollyanna begins with a scene of boys swimming nude in a river in a 1910s rural American setting. The 1968…
Members of the Royal Australian Air Force diving into a river, 1943
Fresco "Tomb of the Diver" – Paestum, Italy – c. 470 BCE
Illustration from Everard Digby's The Art of Swimming (De Arte Natandi) (1587)
"Mermaids at Brighton" by William Heath, c. 1829, depicts women sea bathing with bathing machines.