{"id":470,"date":"2021-04-30T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=470"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:30:54","slug":"a-woman-undressing-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2021\/04\/30\/a-woman-undressing-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman Undressing (1896)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Woman Undressing<\/em> is apparently the oldest known piece of British film erotica. Filmed in 1896 by Esm\u00e9 Collings, it is almost exactly a minute of a woman undressing, although, such was the clothing style at the time, that&#8217;s still not enough time for the woman to actually get undressed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing001s.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing001s.png 800w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing001s-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing001s-768x564.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I very much like the matryoshka element of the display, dresses under skirts under dresses, some sort of Hadean nightmare where no matter how many layers you remove you&#8217;re never any closer to getting ready for bed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing002s.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing002s.png 800w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing002s-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/undressing002s-768x560.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So wonder she sits down and sighs at the end. She&#8217;s probably got another fifteen slips to remove before she can leave.<br \/>\n__________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <em>I watched this on the <a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-a-woman-undressing-1896-online\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BFI site<\/a> as usual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <em>I was somewhat afraid to google for alternate links<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> <em>But it turns out it was okay<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <em>Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_yDDyG__Fmc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube version<\/a> I found has the world&#8217;s worst musical accompaniment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> <em>When obviously it should have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uwqsh9IACyQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>_________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>A Woman Undressing<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> <em>Esm\u00e9 Collings<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> <em>1896<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong> <em>1 minute<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Watch:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-a-woman-undressing-1896-online\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BFI Player<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_yDDyG__Fmc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Woman Undressing is apparently the oldest known piece of British film erotica. Filmed in 1896 by Esm\u00e9 Collings, it is almost exactly a minute of a woman undressing, although, such was the clothing style at the time, that&#8217;s still not enough time for the woman to actually get undressed. I very much like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[230,40,282,285,283,281,284],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-more-than-100-years-old","tag-230","tag-a-minute-at-a-time","tag-a-woman-undressing","tag-david-lynch","tag-erotica","tag-esme-collings","tag-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}