Harry Lachman
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| - | + | '''Harry B. Lachman''' (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American [[artist]], [[set design]]er, and [[film director]]. | |
| - | Several early films of the [[silent era]] and [[Classical Hollywood cinema|early sound era]] included nude scenes, presented in a historical or religious context. [[Cecil B. DeMille]], whose later reputation was that of a family entertainment specialist, included several nude scenes in his early epics such as ''[[The Sign of the Cross]]'' (1932). Other filmmakers followed suit. [[Harry Lachman]]'s ''[[Dante's Inferno (film)|Dante's Inferno]]'' featured many naked women suffering in the bowels of [[hell]]. The early ''[[Tarzan#Film|Tarzan]]'' films with [[Johnny Weismuller]] featured at least partial nudity justified by the natural surroundings in which the characters lived. Nudity of natives was also portrayed in jungle epics. | + | |
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| - | In response to objections voiced by several groups – and at least partly due to the notorious 1933 [[Czechoslovakia|Czech]] film ''[[Ecstasy (film)|Ecstasy]]'', which featured a nude scene by [[Hedy Lamarr]] – scenes of nudity were forbidden in films from the major [[United States|American]] studios from 1934 until the late 1960s under the [[Motion Picture Production Code]], also known as the [[Hays Code]]. During this time, the only acceptable cinematic displays of nudity in the U.S. were in naturist quasi-[[documentary film]]s and in [[foreign film]]s. Other portrayals were in early [[pornographic film]]s which, due to limited means of distribution, were not widely seen. | + | |
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Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.
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