Yesterday we watched a Victorian-era woman undress without every getting anywhere near being clothes free. Today’s ancient peek into voyerisum, early-20th century style, consists of  something even less revealing. It’s a short clip of three women thinking about disrobing. So little happens in this piece of film that must have once been considered salacious and titilating that one wonders if the whole thing was an intentional put-on, designed specifically to draw viewers in and then frustrate them. Perhaps the most interesting part of this presentation has to do with the device on which we view the film. It’s called a ‘Mutoscope’, an early motion picture projection device patented by one Herman Casler in 1894. (Is that when this little movie was shot? If so, all I can say is Jesus!).Like Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope it did not project on a screen, and provided viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the system—marketed by the American Mutoscope Company (later the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company)—quickly dominated the coin-in-the-slot “peep-show” business. Some Geek (and I use the term with affection and admiration) actually owns one of these things and demonstrates it in the above video, which is how we watch the movie in which three women take turns not undressing. Whopee!