The Rule of First Adopters: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* Motion pictures seemed ready to follow the pattern until [[Moral Guardians]] of the period complained, leading to the establishment of the [[Hays Code]]. Up to that point, though, early cinema was far more daring that most people might believe. For example, few remember that the glamorous star of the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr, initially became famous for doing topless and nude scenes in the 1933 Czech film ''Ecstasy''.

** Eugène Pirou made a short film in which a woman performs a striptease in 1896.

** Pioneering filmmaker Georges Mèliès created a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222735/ short film] about a woman taking a bath in 1897.

*** Few people remember it these days, but the same dynamic played out in the LaserDisc vs. CED VideoDisc battle in the early 1980s as well. RCA maintained a tight grip on CED manufacturing (there were only 2 plants in the world capable of making CED discs), and a handful of softcore, ''barely''-above-"R"-rated ''Playboy Video Centerfold'' discs were as far as they were willing to go into that territory. Laserdiscs, on the other hand... (Guess which format survived. Go on, guess.) Although only a niche market in the the US, Europe, and Australia; laserdiscs [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|were the dominant video medium]] in Japan, Hong Kong, and affluent areas of southeast Asia such as Singapore, until the new millenium.

*** Though the RCA CED system's failure is probably more due to the fact that by the time it came out, video cassette recorders were already established.

** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168192/ It's been done before].

*** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141186/ Hardcore, even].

* In ''[[Cracked.com]]''

** An article regarding this phenomenon and [[Tropes Are Not Bad|its positive implications]], [http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html 5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World].

 

== Photography ==