Third of five films for Cinema Century.
Monty Python animator and film-maker Terry Gilliam reveals the earliest moments of the movies, from 1895 when audiences first saw moving pictures projected onto a screen.
This week, he looks at how the first images of women on film, many of them erotic, pulled in audiences, starting with Edison's peep-show film of New York dancer Annabelle Moore. But they swiftly caught the attention of the censor.
Ever since, the human image on screen has influenced every aspect of life, from sex to sport and art to warfare. Eadweard Muybridge was one of the early photographers of motion, using a battery of cameras to capture a semi-naked woman rising to her feet. Fashion styles and comedy were later popularised on screen, and newsreel cameras captured the drama at the 1913 Derby when suffragette Emily Davidson threw herself under the king's horse. Artists like Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Leger were inspired by photography and film to create radical, Futurist images of the body. Featuring Allan Corduner, Peter Eyre, Bryan Pringle, Paul Rhys and Malcolm Sinclair.
Written by Ian Christie ; Director Richard Curson Smith
Terry Gilliam 's science fantasy Brazil is on Sunday at 11.45pm
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