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They weren’t striving as hard for legitimacy or putting the money into hiring a good poster artist.” Porn poster artists approached their work in a variety of ways. Some created collages of sexy (but not sexual) images from the movies themselves. Others placed the focus on the film’s biggest star, with either a drawing or in a photograph. And then there were those who created fully painted posters. These tend to be the most visually striking, and of great interest to collectors. I think the popularity of cable shows like HBO’s The Deuce and the DVD/Blu-Ray company Vinegar Syndrome, which has restored and released dozens of vintage adult films in recent years, has made the market take a little more notice of these collectibles as an investment,” says Bougie, who has around 40 posters in his personal collection. “But I think that’s a small price to pay for these movies becoming better known.” Der 200. Geburtstag der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika wurde 1976 von unzähligen aufrechten Patrioten begangen. Der Film “The Spirit of Seventy-Sex” nutzte diese Gelegenheit, sich über die Geschichte des Landes lustig zu machen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas und andere Würdenträger versinken im sündigen Morast. Der Regisseur ist mittlerweile ein millionenschwerer TV-Produzent, für den “Spirit” vermutlich eine peinliche Leiche im Keller ist.
Another prominent poster artist was Elaine Gignilliat, who later enjoyed a prolific and lucrative career as a romance book cover artist. The adult films for which Gignilliat painted posters in Nonetheless, Bougie has managed to identify the artists behind many of the most stunning and evocative adult film posters. “It was different for each poster and each producer,” he notes. “In some cases, I’ve found that it was the directors themselves that had a side career as artists or graphic designers, and they would make posters for their own movies. Sometimes they would just hire local artists they knew, and other times there were agents that represented commercial artists or graphic design firms.” But adult film producers had to be extremely careful when it came to the images on their posters. While the films themselves were sexually explicit, the posters had to remain somewhat staid. “It’s actually uncommon to see nipples and such, and you never see penises or vaginas,” Bougie observes. “You have to remember that the main place these posters were displayed was on the sidewalk out in front of the theater, and in the lobby of the theater, which could sometimes be seen from the sidewalk. So if a theater didn’t want to get in more trouble with the city and local police, they had to be very cautious.”Theatrical hardcore adult movies weren’t a thing until Alex De Renzy’s Pornograpyhy in Denmark, which was released in U.S. theaters in 1969. But if we’re talking about softcore adult movies, those really started with Russ Meyer’s The Immoral Mr. Teas a decade earlier,” says porn historian and graphic artist Robin Bougie, author of two volumes of Graphic Thrills: American XXX Movie Posters (FAB Press). “And that had a movie poster just like any other theatrical film would have, because how else are you going to let people know about your low budget movie in 1959?” Come on guys, I seriously don’t get the thought process here. Did you think “Hey, I have an amazing idea, how about we cram as much tiny letters and images into a thumbnail so that nobody can guess what the video is about”? If so, then congratulations, you managed to do just that. Not only confusing but ugly as well, these posters serve as a warning to the rest of the world about the effects of radiation from nuclear bomb detonations. Yes, I went there, the thumbnails are just THAT bad. And during that 15-year heyday, there were some beauts. Though many of the films were coarse, poorly made “weekend wonders,” the posters promoting them often were gorgeous works rendered by artists with genuine talent. In fact, it could be argued that in many cases, posters for adult films were more artistic, authentic and creatively conceived than their mainstream counterparts. My Graphic Thrills coffee table books focus specifically on 1970 to 1985 because that’s really the window of time that the adult movie theaters flourished, and that’s what you need for one sheets–a theater to display them. But in the very early years, 1970 to 1973, I find the art and design of the posters somewhat rudimentary and staid. Almost like they were warming up and weren’t quite sure what was allowed and how racy they could get. By the last years of the adult movie poster, 1983 to 1985, I feel that pornographers were getting somewhat lazy and were no longer trying as hard to make cinema anymore. More videos than you can ever hope to watchThe video count on HP Jav is insane as well. You’ve got almost 7000 amateur videos, over 11000 uncensored ones, and nearly a whopping 30000 censored porn videos. With so much porno to go through, you’ll probably end up going out of your weeb phase by the time you’re done with just 1% of the videos. On top of all that, seeing as how there are just so many videos here, you’ll definitely find something that suits your taste.
clude Dominatrix Without Mercy (1976), Sex Wish (1976), Night of Submission (1976), Call Me Angel, Sir (1976), Oriental Treatment (1977), A Teenage Pajama Party (1977), Virgin Dreams (1977) and Summer School (1979). By the late 1970s the VHS had arrived which bought the end of the classic x-rated movie poster. ‘People started watching porn at home, and the films started becoming explicit, which killed the posters,’ says Nourmand, one of the authors of X-Rated Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s. ‘But what I love about them is their spirit. They are the most graphically interesting posters of that period. Look at the number of fonts used, number of techniques used. They’re beautiful.’ The aesthetics are wonderful in so many cases,” Bougie enthuses. “The colors, the fonts, and the way sexuality and sexual iconography is used to pique interest in the viewer. There’s a lot for me, an artist myself, to learn from the way the older generation put together commercial art. Their work is solid, and in many cases the posters were better than the movies they were advertising.” The critically acclaimed 1996 film, The People Vs Larry Flynt ( Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton), is abiographical drama about the life of Hustler magazine publisher, Larry Flynt. The main theme of the filmis censorship. Ironically, the poster for the film… got censored. More irony. The United States was the only country that banned this sexy movie poster. The imagery is actually very clever and symbolic. Once you get past the nudity and the American flag diaper, you might notice Woody Harrelsonis being crucified and posing like Jesus on the cross.
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