1906--George Méliès in Paris introduces another cinema special effect--beheading--in The History of Madam Curie.
   1906--Murray's Roman Gardens opens on West 42nd Street, New York, and features naked living statuary posing as nymphs.
   1906--Annette Kellerman invents the bathing unitard.
   1907--Irish-Hawaiian surfer George Freeth visits Redondo Beach in California and performs surfing demonstrations.
   1907--The word brassière enters the American language. The noun is borrowed from the French and refers to a woman's underbodice worn to support the breasts.
   1907--Richard Strauss brings his opera Salome to New York and uproar over the prima donna's "Dance of the Seven Veils" closes the show after one night.
   1907--Florenz Ziegfeld begins production of the Ziegfeld Follies in New York. The Follies is a lavish stage spectacle modeled after the Folies Bergère in Paris, and with vast attention to costume and dance. Salome is one of its showcases. The ideal Ziegfeld girl measures 36-24-38.
   1907--A peep-show version of Fatima performing the Serpentine Dance at the 1893 Colombian Exposition is censored by superimposed parallel lines.
   1907--The Chicago censorship committee is created.
   1907--Swimming star Annette Kellerman is arrested in Boston for wearing a leg-baring one-piece bathing suit.
   1908--In Berlin censorship cards jurisdiction is transferred to the chief of police of each precinct.
   1908--The white slave trade film becomes an established genre. "Fifty girls in chains! See the white slave trade bigger than life!" announces the ads for The Fatal Hour.
   1908--Private baths and swimming pools flourish in London, with one census reporting 3502 private baths and 104 swimming pools in the greater city. Six million people visit annually, 10% of them women.
   1909--Men's bathing costumes are flannel with tops with sleeves and long drawers that clung to the thighs.
   1909--The British pass the First Cinematograph Act, which deals with fire hazards, and create the British Board of Film Censors.
   1909--Chicago government officials decree that insinuations of rape at the hands of white slavers in films must not be rewarded.
   1909--Emergence of the temperance drama, a film which extols the evils of drink, with simultaneously showing the perils of the young girl.
   1909--The NAACP is founded in the aftermath of race riots in Atlanta, Georgia and Springfield, Illinois.
   1910--The first synthetic fiber is produced commercially in the United States--it is viscose rayon made from wood pulp.
   1910--Leon Bakst designs filmy, Orientalist costumes for the Ballet Russes' production of Scheherazade at the Paris Opera.
   1910--First show girls appear nude on stage in Paris. During the teens chorus girls increasingly go topless.