First depiction of ______ in the movies?

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Or, to expand the topic, the first time you noticed ______ in the movies. I suppose this could be two different threads, but I’ll try it with one.

For instance, the first time I noticed a wireless phone (not a cell) in a movie was in Terms of Endearment, when Emma (Debra Winger) is sitting out by the pool at her friend Patsy’s house. The phone rings and Patsy brings a honkin’ huge wireless to Emma because it’s Emma’s mother Aurora on the phone. It must have been the first time Emma saw one too, because at first she’s momentarily confused, then she’s amused by the phone.

Did an earlier movie show a wireless phone? What movie showed the first cell phone? The first mobile phone. The first television. The first commercial airplane. The first computer. The first laptop. Anything really.
I’d like this thread to encompass lots of topics, since that’s what I’m really looking for, but since this first popped into my head because of a passing thought regarding sex, I’ll get these out of the way.

The first time I noticed sex being implied in a mainstream film was in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Of course they didn’t show it, but it was the first time I thought, “wow, they just had sex” based on the context. It was also the first time I realized that some men liked other men romantically, when Clyde tells Bonnie he’s not “queer.” I guess that would also be the first time that I heard the word “queer” used to mean homosexuals.

The first time I noticed cunnilingus being implied in a movie, was Play Misty For Me (1971) between Clint Eastwood and Donna Mills, but innocent me didn’t realize what was happening (I thought “where’d he go?”). The next time I saw it, in 1981’s American Werewolf In London, I knew exactly what was going on. Also, the first time I noticed fellatio being implied was 1979’s Life Of Brian, but I didn’t get that either (when Brian’s mum walks over to the Roman soldier and gets down on her knees). Much more interesting and shocking (to me at the time), Life of Brian is also the first time I saw a man naked in the movies. Strangely, I don’t remember when I first saw a naked woman (top or bottom), or the first time I saw an actual love scene.

Clint Eastwood was also responsible for me seeing the first interracial relationship, in 1975’s The Eiger Sanction, between Jonathan Hemlock (Clint) and his stewardess girlfriend Jemima Brown (Vonetta McGee).

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First naked woman was Linnea Quigley in Return of the Living Dead. I remember the first naked man I saw, but not what the movie was called. It was made in 70s or 80s (when men could still have body hair). A college student got spying on a bunch of sorority girls and they proceeded to hold him down and rip his clothes off. He then had to make his way back to his fraternity house naked. :cool: For some reason when got back most of the guys where hanging out in their underwear (tighty whities). I don’t suppose anybody knows what movie that was?

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Was that the first one you saw, or the first one that appeared in the movies? I suppose this kind of thing happened earlier in European films.

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First one I saw (home video, early 90s).

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The first depiction of romantic gay sex I ever saw in a mainstream movie (art-house but not porn or underground) was on a STARZ showing of the Merchant-Ivory production of E.M. Forster’s Maurice. The actors were James Wilby and Rupert Graves (who hasn’t aged particularly well but was a very fine looking young man- his skinny dipping in Room With a View fueled many a fantastic “daydream” moment in my late teens. :wink: )

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Having not seen it I can’t say for sure, but I think the first non-porn explicit depiciton of gay sex was the film Shortbus. Possibly the first non-porn film to show both eplicit hetero and homo sex in the same film too.

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Asian, was she?

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The first time I saw a gal getting her chimes rung was in an early 1970’s documentary that showed clips of Hedy Lamar in Ecstacy, claiming that it was its first depiction in mainstream cinema.

Hedy Lamar, Jenny Agutter…it’s all good. Donna Mills? I dunno; gals who star in primetime soaps are too entangled in the products advertised. I’d expect them to empty a can of Glade into the bedroom air first, and be doused with horrible anit-femine odor chemicals.

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The first time I saw a gal getting her chimes rung was in an early 1970’s documentary that showed clips of Hedy Lamar in Ecstacy, claiming that it was its first depiction in mainstream cinema.
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That’s Hedley!
anyway… “Chimes rung” i like that, first time I noticed that particular brand of interaction was in Freebie and the Bean (1974).

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First nude I remember was Julie Newmar, in McKenna’s Gold (1969) Hubba-hubba! Actually, we didn’t see much, but hey, I was twelve, and it was plenty exciting for a twelve-year-old. :smiley:

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The first movie that I know of that showed a wireless phone was Project Moonbase (1953). It was based on scripts be Robert Heinlein, who I strongly suspect of being responsible for its inclusion. Wireless phones weren’t a consumer item in 1953, and he was extrapolating. Nobody makes a big deal about it, or points them out, but if you look, you’ll notice that the phones don’t have cords. Each handset has an unobtrusive little antenna, and there’s a matching antenna on the desk set. It’s a very cute touch.

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In the same film? Heck, in the same room!

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As for the first television, the oldest movie I know of with what must be a video screen (not real, of course) is Fritz Lang;s Metropolis (1927). Of course there, as in much early depictions of television, it’s part of the sender/receiver of a picture telephone, not simply the receiver in an entertainment viewer. (Televisions had been around in literature at least since Jules Verne’s Carpathian Castle (1892), and probably earlier.

Eight years later we got Bela Lugosi in Murder by Television, but I don’t know if there’s anything besides Metro;polis earlier than that.
There’s a mobile phone in Humphre Bogart’s car in Sabrina (1954) and that case wasn’t science fiction – it was just rare and expensive – just the kind of thing Linus Larrabee would have. I don’t know if there were earlier depictions.

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Deep Throat. :wink:

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Question: Are we talking about the first depiction of something in film, or the first time we saw something?

For example, I was thirteen when I first saw full frontal nudity(female) in a film, The Hawaiians. But the oldest depiction of nudity(male, from the back) in a film I’ve seen is in the silent film version of Ben-Hur. A naked galley slave was chained against a bulkhead down where the rowers were. And there were also female breasts being flashed, girls throwing flower petals in a triuumphal parade. Every time they threw a handful, their long hair flew back and they were naked from the waist up.

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First product placement I remember seeing was in Beetlejuice, when the title character plays a game of Charades with Winona Ryder so that she can guess his name, and he uses a carton of Minute Maid orange juice for the 2nd syllable.

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There’s a scene in the 1978 film The Big Fix where Richard Dreyfuss, playing a struggling detective, is talking to a rich man in the lounge of the private club he belongs to. A butler brings Dreyfuss a phone inside a plush-looking box (although the phone looks rather like an ordinary phone) and tells Dreyfuss that he has a call. Dreyfuss’s character looks astonished at the fact that the phone isn’t connected to a phone jack or anything by wire. I think the point of the scene is that only a very rich man would have access to a phone like that.

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The 1933 W.C. Fields film *International House * concerns a new invention: television. Also appearing is Rose Marie.

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Beetlejuice also used a Zagnut bar as roach bait.

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Product placement LONG predates Beetlejuice. Heck, the year Beetlejuice came out, Return of the Killer Tomatoes made explicit product placement the major running joke of the film