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"Since the 1930s, American exploitation filmmakers found they could skirt the Motion Picture Production Code and make lurid exposés on taboo subjects (drug parties, prostitution, venereal disease, etc.) that sometimes included nudity if they were presented as moralizing educational films that delivered a cautionary tale. Using this framework as a pretense, brief nude scenes of women appeared in Maniac (1934), Sex Madness (1938), and skinny-dipping sequences in Marihuana (1936) and Child Bride (1938).

Nudist films are a genre of films associated with the 1950s and 1960s, although the genre has roots dating back to the 1930s with such titles as The Nude World (1933). Nudist films claim to depict the lifestyles of members of the nudism or naturist movement, but were largely a vehicle for the exhibition and commercial exploitation of female nudity within the context of public theatrical screenings.

Famous examples of nudist films are Garden of Eden (1954) directed by Max Nosseck. Other producers and directors active in the genre included David F. Friedman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and Barry Mahon."--Sholem Stein

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