After the Ball (1897 film)

After the Ball
scene from the film
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Produced by	Star Film Company ^[1]
Release dates	1897
Running time	Short
Country	France
Language	Silent film

After the Ball (French: Après le bal) is a short French silent film created and released in 1897 and directed by Georges Méliès.

It starred Jehanne d'Alcy - Méliès' future wife, and Jane Brady.

The film's plot is a one minute scene of a servant bathing a woman, along with the scenarios before and after as the servant is helping her get undressed while revealing a few layers of clothing, bathing her, and finally covering and drying her with a robe. This is the earliest film to show nudity.^[2]

References

↑ "After the Ball (S)". FilmAffinity.
↑ After the Ball at the Internet Movie Database

External links

After the Ball at the Internet Movie Database
After the Ball on YouTube
After the Ball, with sound on YouTube

Films directed by Georges Méliès

1896–99	Actualities (1896–1900) Playing Cards (1896) Watering the Flowers (1896) Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station (1896) The Rag Picker (1896) Post No Bills (1896) A Terrible Night (1896) A Lightning Sketch (1896) Conjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds (1896) A Serpentine Dance (1896) Miss de Vère (English Jig) (1896) The Vanishing Lady (1896) The Haunted Castle (1896) A Nightmare (1897) Comedian Paulus Singing (1897) A Funny Mahometan (1897) The Haunted Castle (1897) On the Roofs (1897) Reconstructed newsreels (1897–1902) The Last Cartridges (1897) The Surrender of Tournavos (1897) Sea Fighting in Greece (1897) Gugusse and the Automaton (1897) Between Calais and Dover (1897) The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897) The Bewitched Inn (1897) After the Ball (1897) The Magician (1898) The Famous Box Trick (1898) Pygmalion and Galatea (1898) Adventures of William Tell (1898) The Astronomer's Dream (1898) The Four Troublesome Heads (1898) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1898) Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb (1899) The Devil in a Convent (1899) The Clown and Automobile (1899) A Mysterious Portrait (1899) The Dreyfus Affair (1899) Cinderella (1899) The Mysterious Knight (1899)

1900–05	Addition and Subtraction (1900) The Cook's Revenge (1900) The Misfortunes of an Explorer (1900) Paris Exposition, 1900 (1900) The One Man Band (1900) Joan of Arc (1900) The Rajah's Dream (1900) The Two Blind Men (1900) Thanking the Audience (1900) A Fantastical Meal (1900) Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900) The Doctor and the Monkey (1900) China Versus Allied Powers (1900) Bluebeard (1901) The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) The Eruption of Mount Pelee (1902) The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax" (1902) A Trip to the Moon (1902) The Coronation of Edward VII (1902) The Treasures of Satan (1902) Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902) Robinson Crusoe (1902) The Inn Where No Man Rests (1903) The Oracle of Delphi (1903) The Melomaniac (1903) The Monster (1903) The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903) The Infernal Cauldron (1903) The Barber of Seville (1904) The Impossible Voyage (1904) The Christmas Angel (1904) The Palace of the Arabian Nights (1905) An Adventurous Automobile Trip (1905) Rip's Dream (1905)

1906–12	The Chimney Sweep (1906) A Desperate Crime (1906) The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906) The Mysterious Retort (1906) Under the Seas (1907) Satan in Prison (1907) Tunnelling the English Channel (1907) The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and the Moon (1907) Humanity Through the Ages (1908) A Love Tragedy in Spain (1908) French Cops Learning English (1908) Fortune Favors the Brave (1908) Seein' Things (1908) The Diabolic Tenant (1909) Baron Munchausen's Dream (1911) Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912) The Conquest of the Pole (1912) The Knight of the Snows (1912) The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family (1912)