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Chris Bankston
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From: Crowley La. USA
Registered: Mar 2013

posted March 17, 2013 11:54 PM

I am interested in late 30's - 50's B/W Risque films. I'm not talking about Stag Films nor Porn. (X Rated?)
I have been searching the internet about early Risque films (flirts, striptease and a little nudity).
I can not find very much information about this subject of filming at all.
I am a bit curious of how the underground filming worked back then. Was it illegal?
The same style as Betty Page films.
Can someone who might be knowledgeable in this era of filming point me in the right direction to maybe a certain film director or some type of documentation of these type of films?

Thanks. Chris

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Jeff Missinne
Film Handler

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From: Superior, WI USA
Registered: Nov 2012

posted March 19, 2013 08:58 AM

You might want to try internet searches on the names Irving Klaw and Joe Bonica; both were mail-order dealers in cheesecake films in the 40's and 50's, and both involved in legal complications of one kind or another.

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Chris Bankston
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From: Crowley La. USA
Registered: Mar 2013

posted March 20, 2013 07:13 AM

Thanks Jeff.. Thats the exact shady film people i am looking for.

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Jeff Missinne
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From: Superior, WI USA
Registered: Nov 2012

posted March 20, 2013 10:01 PM

Hope I was some help. Joe Bonica seemed to sell anything and everything thru his "Movie of the Month" sales gimmick, which seemed to last from the 1940's into the 60's. Over the years I've run into everything from 16mm dupes of Soundies to complete 8mm silent features. Probably his biggest seller, and most commonly found release, was his reprint of newsreel footage of the atomic bomb test explosions! (A bombshell of a different kind...) [Roll Eyes]

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