Nudity has almost universally not been permitted on stage, but sheer or simulated nudity may have been. Devices used included flesh-colored bodystockingsto simulate nudity or long hair as a cover for vital parts for roles such a

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The first films containing nudity were early erotic films. Production of such films commenced almost immediately after the invention of the motion

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Overview
Filmmaking started in the 1890s, and the first feature-length film was produced in 1906. Nude scenes appeared in films from the start of the new

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Some European films showed more nudity than the American films, due to less strict attitudes about nudity in some parts of Europe. European films

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Over the years, nudity in film was a source of scandal and provocation; but its presence today is treated largely naturally, frequently with nudity being shown in scenes that naturally

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Female nudity has been fairly common in Japanese cinema since at least the 1960s when the director Seijun Suzuki included nude scenes in his yakuza exploitation filmssuch

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Generally full-frontal nudity is not shown in the cinema of India, and nudity is implied if a film's story requires it, through the use of simulated nudity, as explicit shots of the body, breasts, genitalia or

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