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At the State theatre Boston was located in what was known as the "Combat Zone". All film had to be screened in the 1960's for the City Censor. He was a real what I call a "Pip" Brad Major's from the Rocky Horror Picture Show has his nickname (We all know what that is)I don't know of any actual 3D Porno but will check with my "Sleezy" friends.

PS Joe lend me your F-T Hat, so I can slip in "Incognito".

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Recall that the Monroe and its sister theatre the Riviera were the premier theatres in Rochester during the 60's, where all the big 70mm roadshows played. Both fell on hard times in the early 70's, and began their fall to disgrace just to pay the bills. The same projectors that showed 70mm prints of "Ben Hur" and "The Sound of Music" now were used for the 35mm XXX stuff like "Debbie Does Dallas" and "Deep Throat".

The city was finally able to shut down the Riviera for back taxes, and the theatre was torn down to build a CVS drug store. Lynn Smeal managed the Riviera from its glory days to it's ignominious closing. He was a true SHOWMAN, saddened by the closing of his grand theatre. I met him to arrange Kodak's purchase of the two Norelco 35/70mm projectors, which now safely reside in our 2000-seat Kodak Theater on the Ridge. Lynn died shortly after, IMHO, of a broken heart.

I'm saddened to think of all the similar situations throughout the country, of grand theatres being left behind in the name of "progress".

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At the time, the Japanese had a regular (not porno) 3D film "Kikaida" which showed in Honolulu, and the Russians had a 70mm side-by-side system. One of the features for that system was "The Mysterious Monk."

I have a sample clip from Findlay's film, the 3D looks similar to the Spacevision system.

One ad in a 1974 trade journal was for "Love in 3D" with Ingrid Steeger, "filmed in 3 dimensional 70mm/technicolor"

Joe,
Most Porno houses did not have to rely on SRD, Stadium Seating, or other magical things. All of these places had other types of aids to help make the movie more realistic......
Mark

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I remember hearing when DVDs first came out that the adult industry was going to start shooting their "films" from multiple angles so people with DVDs could select the camera they wanted to view the "action" from. Anyone know if they actually did this? The only DVD I know of that has taken advantage of the multiple angle feature is Detroit Rock City.

Some of those booths are equally disgusting. I serviced the equipment in some of those places in Seattle a long time ago, and when I left the booth, I had to go home and de-louse myself. Some of those booths were absolutely filthy. The only thing I didn't see in some of those booths was a trash can (if one even existed) full of maggots.

I worked a season at a porno drive-in. It was actually a clean, family operated place (father and daughter), and there was always a local cop on duty and no nonsense. I've worked in lots worse places.

Anyway, the owner used to place ads for used X rated 35mm films in Boxoffice and other magazines. He collected a houseful, and since many of the companies were in business about as long as a fruit fly lives, he could show many of these without paying any film rental. During slow weeks, he'd rent a new headline film, double feature it with one of his own, and get the regular customers. On the major weekends, when the drive-in would be packed anyway, he refused to rent films at all, but ran his own and took home the entire gate. _That_ was a man who understood the industry and new how to work a niche market.

A lot of the films had the same actors, and many didn't bother with plot lines, and audiences didn't much care about anything but the action anyway. Scenes from one film could be seen showing up in other films, title bands often had multiple titles, and it was an odd mix of footage that got shown on the screen, along with an occasional new feature.

I didn't see porno as disgusting as much as I saw it as boring (no pun intended). Having to watch for changeover cues, I soon came to the conclusion that these films had about as much plot value as watching an animated cutaway of an internal combustion engine for an hour and ten minutes.

R. M. Hayes 3-D Movies : a history and filmography of stereoscopic cinema (1989) lists release dates for Blonde Emanuelle and Scoring! as February 1984. Hayes lists The Disco Dolls in "Hot Skin" as 1978 and The Lollipop Girls in "Hard Candy" as November 1976. Both were filmed in Deep Vision (single strip polybiochromatic anaglyphic), and released by Debonair, later by Jaguar-Beehive, and later still by Tara Releasing.

The filmmakers name, Norm De Plume, is a pseudonym for Stephen Gibson. Gibson's other Deep Vision films are The Playmates (1973), Black Lolita (1975), Wildcat Women (1976), and It Came from Inner Space (1985).

The April 2000 issue of Penthouse had an article on John Holmes, "Born to Be Wadd" by Legs McNeil. In the article Bill Margold states, "There is an orgy scene in Disco Dolls where I'm being blown by Leslie Bovee and John's being worked on by four people next to me--and all of a sudden his dick popped out over my head, and I looked up at it and it was like the opening shot of Star Wars.