Early Film: Trapeze Striptease

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Here’s an oddity, a Thomas Edison film from 1901 featuring an enthusiastically received striptease on the solo trapeze. True, she finishes with more skin still covered than most of today’s acts start with, but I suspect it was still pretty risqué at the time.

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