- Within a year of the first public screening of a motion picture in 1895, the first pornographic film was screened in Paris. Now, don’t get your eyebrows raised!
Although “Le Coucher de la mariee” ‘s original running time is listed at seven minutes, degradation of the film has left it at about two minutes and it now ends just as the bride is about to get undressed—some rather merciless censorship from Father Time. We are regressing, is it?
