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<\/a>Kid Gallahad (Wayne Morris) Screen Guide, 1937<\/p><\/div>\n
Almost any collection of film contains something a bit naughty.\u00a0 Pornographic films were, after all,\u00a0 invented almost as soon as motion picture film was invented.<\/p>\n
While processing a recent collection procured by the Harvard Film Archive, I kept wondering where the dirty little secrets were.\u00a0 Finally I found them: some 16mm 1920s nudie films, possibly the least offensive items I could have imagined,\u00a0 many of which have opening titles which read:\u00a0 \u201cA producer\u2019s note: this picture is solely for the development of graphic arts, an aid to sculptors, artists & designers who may not have a living model.”<\/p>\n
The majority of the HFA’s erotic films are from the Grove Press Collection<\/a>,\u00a0 but there are a few others that turn up here and there, and include everything from silent nudies to stag films to softcore and hardcore pornography.\u00a0 Many of the pornographic\u00a0 films from the Grove Press Collection have been shown in the HFA’s Cinematheque.<\/p>\n Most recently I have noted some ephemeral material that is best categorized as Sexploitation in the Lothar and Eva Just Film StillsCollection<\/a> (shown below).<\/p>\n