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Also in 1896. {{interlanguage link|Fatima's Coochie-Coochie dance|fr|Fatima, danse du ventre|nl|Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance}}<ref>Produced by James A. White and shot by William Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Co. in 1896.</ref> was released as a short [[Nickelodeon (movie theater)|nickelodeon]] [[kinetoscope]]/film featuring a gyrating [[belly dancer]] named Fatima. Her gyrating and moving pelvis was censored, one of the earliest films to be censored. At the time, there were numerous risque films that featured exotic dancers.<ref name=sexinfilms1>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.html|title=Sex in Cinema: Pre-1920s Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes|access-date=3 May 2016|archive-date=23 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423071032/http://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In the same year, ''[[The Kiss (1896 film)|The May Irwin Kiss]]'' contained the very first kiss on film. It was a 47-second film loop, with a close-up of a nuzzling couple followed by a short peck on the lips ("the mysteries of the kiss revealed"). The kissing scene was denounced as shocking and obscene to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship and moral reform, because kissing in public at the time could lead to prosecution.<ref name=sexinfilms1 /> Perhaps in defiance and "to spice up a film", this was followed by many kiss imitators, including ''[[The Kiss in the Tunnel]]'' (1899) and ''The Kiss'' (1900). A [[tableau vivant]] style was used in short film ''{{interlanguage link|Birth of The Pearl|cy}}'' (1901)<ref>Produced by [[Frederick S. Armitage]] for the [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company]].</ref> featuring an unnamed long-haired young model wearing a flesh-colored [[body stocking]] in a direct frontal pose<ref name=sexinfilms1 /> that provides a provocative view of the female body.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmi10/d21.html|title=Full caption: Birth of the Pearl. Camera: F.S. Armitage. AM&B, 1901. Paper Print Collection (LC1318), Moving Image Section, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.|access-date=3 May 2016|archive-date=30 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830042926/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmi10/d21.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The pose is in the style of [[Botticelli]]'s ''[[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|The Birth of Venus]]''.