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Originally Posted by infopop
Take a look at Wikipedia's story about 'Boys In The Sand. It was released in 1971, prior to 'Deep Throat' and was a milestone for all porn movies, not just gay ones.
Made on an $8.000 budget and filmed on Fire Island, it was theatrically released in New York City grossing nearly $25,000 the first week. After being reviewed in 'Variety,' not just 'The Advocate,' it grossed over $140,000 in the first six months and was released nationwide and in other countries. IMDB said it was the only X-rated film reviewed in the 'New York Times." That seems hard to believe, but a quick Google search did not show an NYT review of 'Deep Throat.'
Quite a few of those New York 8mm porn movies did get transferred to VHS and Beta at some point. I remember some of them being especially sleazy, uninhibited, and hot. As for 'Boys In The Sand,' it was sort of a visual poem, meant to be artistic, yet it was also sex-sex-sex.
Bob |
Thanks for the tips & suggestions.
This is where the partial cultural disconnect must have kicked in.
Living in Europe at that time, there was only so much of the commercial porn that made it over to us in the eastern Med.
Naturally, we were the 'new kids' and the 70's stuff sounded and probably must have looked 'old' and rather undesirable to us. The new VHS with bright colors, and very graphic scenes ruled out porn market needs.
KD