I was very surprised to see a one of the daughters just starting to show curves in a soaking wet dress and nobody in the family thinking anything of it. The movie was made in 1944. It is supposed to take place in 1904.
Who is Keyser Soze?
Right. Who cares? She's a pre-pubescent girl who had just been swimming. How else was she supposed to dress? A big bathing costume? She wasn't at the beach. She was in a swimming hole with her friends.
shareThis is an extremely worrying post. I sincerely hope you don't have access to children.
shareMy thoughts exactly Just In Time. I've seen this movie tons of times such a thought has never entered my mind and a mother.
shareIMDB includes this in their warnings to parents under nudity and sexuality. So the OP has a point.
shareActually, Agnes was in her underwear, and you can see her near-bare behind through her drawers.
But producers were always looking for ways to elude the Production Code.
There is nothing 'worrying' in the original post; the OP is merely making an observation.
I don't think that particular scene would fly in a film made today; it just shows a change in sensibilities over the decades.
I did find that a bit off-putting and wondered where she had been swimming--even if not in a public place, why she was allowed to walk home like that and no one said anything. She should either have been less scantily dressed, or been swimming with girls only and walked home in some sort of cloak, which she should have done anyway due to the danger of catching a chill, unless she was swimming in an enclosed back yard and there was no indication the Smith family or neighbors had a pool, implying she walked home like that from a public pool or a creek!
shareThings were different back in the good ol' days. There was this thing called innocence. All kids went swimming naked or nearly naked and no one thought anything of it. It was the norm... Perhaps Mr. Minnelli put this shot in as a throwback to the innocence of those days when things were simpler and not creepy or perverted.
shareThe opening shot of Disney's Pollyanna, a period film that takes place around the same time as Meet me in St. Louis, shows a naked boy (from the back) swinging on a rope swing over a swimming hole. He didn't have a stitch on, but the scene passed the Disney censors. Nudity in a Disney film? Go figure.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054195/board/thread/98044029
I see your point about innocence. But there's also something called art. I just watched the film again and was surprised that she looked nearly nude in light cotton underclothes, in spite of her youth. You'd think the costume dept., the director, the lighting guy or someone would call attention to this level of seeming nudity. It's not shocking--just a human body in the context of a hot summer day. But still....
shareI'm going to go with flawed or computerized color correction of Technicolor on that. What self respecting cinema creep leave that not commented on for 60 years?
shareIt's hard to comprehend the petty, silly mind that's concerned over this. No rational, intelligent person cares.
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