It appears that early ‘adult’ cinema included a genre that can only be referred to as ‘Undressing Porn’. But porn isn’t an accurate word in this case because the examples of this genre that I’m finding don’t really go much beyond the outer layer of undergarments. Perhaps it was a Victorian sense of propriety that allowed viewers to be titiliated by the process of a woman undressing as opposed to the end result. Above is a mysterious clip of a very Victorian lady undressing rather elaborately and still winding up with a lot of clothing on. She finally sits, exhausted, and is about to take off her shoes when either A) The director yelled cut,B)The camera ran out of film C) That was all she’d agreed to do or D) this scrap of film is incomplete. You’ll be exhausted just watching the poor lady struggle and I think she well deserves the rest she gets after this interminable minute.