After the filming of Naked as Nature Intended, Pamela Green went to visit family in Holland. When she got back, she found the studio in the throes of preparing a silent 8mm comedy film called Badland Big’eads. It was to star George Harrison Marks and Stuart Samuels, as well as Continue Reading
Films and Radio
From the cinematic tale of Harrison Mark’s nudist feature, Naked as Nature Intended, the iconic British film that brought us, Pamela Green, in her birthday suit, to the 8mm striptease films of Kamera Cine Films and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. And that’s not all; we’ve thrown in a few radio interviews and other bits and bobs for good measure.
Naked As Nature Intended Japanese Adverts
Here is a couple of Japanese magazine adverts for the naturist movie Naked as Nature Intended, which was released in Japan in 1963, two years after its UK release. A while back I posted the actual poster. You can see it here. I’ve been meaning to post a picture of the Continue Reading
Get ’em off at the Nell Gwynn – Part 1
Get ’em off (1976) is an amusing and dated film about the history of stripping mainly filmed at the Nell Gwynn and The Gargoyle Club in London’s Soho. When George Harrison Marks and Pamela Green were living and working in Gerrard Street in the 1960s, they were just a stone’s Continue Reading
Living Doll (1965)
Harrison Marks first announced that his glamour films were in production in Kamera No.23 (1959). It was not until seven months later, however, in issue No.30 (1960) that the first films were advertised for sale. They were silent and black and white and available in 8mm or 16mm. The 16mm Continue Reading
Doing Rude Things – invite
This is my second book-related post this week! For those of you with long memories, you may remember that way back in 1992 Pamela Green wrote the foreword to David McGillivray’s book Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film, 1957-81. It was the first serious study of Continue Reading
Peeping Tom Painting by Emanuele Taglietti
The Italian artist Emanuele Taglietti worked as set designer on numerous films, including Federico Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits (1965) and Marco Ferreri’s L’Harem (1967). In 1973 he became a comic book cover artist for the Italian publisher Edifumetto, working on such titles as titles Playcolt, La Poliziotta and Vampirissimo Continue Reading
The Peeping Tom Eye by John Bignell
This picture from 1958 was entitled “Probably the most widely seen eye in the world.” The eye belonged to the Mayor of Chelsea’s mace bearer and featured in posters and publicity for Michael Powell’s ill-fated film Peeping Tom, which more or less ended the director’s UK career. The photo is Continue Reading
The Pleasure Principle at the BFI
Readers of this blog will be delighted to hear that the British Film Institute has digitised a couple of Kamera Cine films by Harrison Marks as part of the Pleasure Principle Collection. The collection offers a guide to illicit celluloid pleasures, from teasing Victorian views of corsets and petticoats to Continue Reading
The (Naked) World of Harrison Marks (1965)
After Naked as Nature Intended in 1961, George Harrison Marks’s next feature film was The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1965). This time, he would not only be the director and producer but as the title implied the star. The film is a pseudo-documentary look at his daily life, spliced Continue Reading
Happy Birthday, Mademoiselle!
Raise a glass to Pamela Green, pin-up icon, legend and dear friend who would have been 87 today. The below picture is from the short film The Window Dresser (1961). Pamela Green was charged with corrupting a schoolboy in Alloa, Scotland, through her performance in this short film. The youngster confessed Continue Reading