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Release Date:
June 25, 2013
Original Title:
That's Sexploitation!
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Severin Films
Something Weird Video (SWV)
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 136
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
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Art Direction:
Lisa Petrucci
Camera Operator:
Brent Kerr
Anthony Sneed
Daniel Griffith
Director:
Frank Henenlotter
David F. Friedman
Donald A. Davis
Editor:
Frank Henenlotter
Post Production Producer:
Jason Higgins
Producer:
Jimmy Maslon
Mike Vraney
Donald A. Davis
David F. Friedman
Arther Knight
Sound Mixer:
Peter Toh
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