Then, a week later he called Hyland back to say he was going to need more "Amateur Hall of Fame" titles sent to his store, because he took a copy home with him and reported "This shit is really different."
That's been the struggle with the "Amateur Hall of Fame" line. Convincing people that it's not a bunch of old ladies shooting home made porn. Well, it sort of is.
See what I mean?
Here's the deal with "AHOF". The 'Before 1995' thing is important, because that's when the USC 18, 2257 Laws (or the 'must have proof of age' law) went into effect, requiring all adult film producers to keep and maintain ID's on everyone who appears in their film. Anything shot prior is 'Grandfathered' in, so those ID's don't have to be maintained. And it's a good thing too, because otherwise, these tapes would never be seen.
Anyway... this is back in the late 80's and early 90's when a group of Swingers, led by a woman named Lynn Carroll (who was a swinger herself), would throw what they would call "Fuck & Film" parties. Groups of people would gather, usually in a hotel room or someone's house, and fuck the shit out of each other. Everyone would take pictures and home videos, and then everyone would trade tapes with each other.
Like a really filthy sewing circle that involved creampies and double penetrations. And some of these chicks where hot too. Here's a picture of Drunna, who's the star of "Volume 8" that I'm putting together right now.
Damn, right?
There was no money involved, everyone would pretty much split the hotel room and the food, and they were trading the tapes, so these are hot chicks who where just getting down for the fun of it, and their husbands where filming so that they could show all their other swinger friends.
And these chicks would Get. Down.
Yeah, just dicks flying everywhere, dude's calling 'thirds' and just climbing on top. If there was an Open Oriface, chicks like Drunna are yelling to have some dude stick his dick in it. Crazy.
These days Producer's and Director's try and coach the 'Porn Girls' to act like they are enjoying themselves. This swinger chicks are all about enjoying themselves, and it shows.
Check out that camera. "High Quality VHS". All the way.
Well, a year ago, we made a deal with Lynn Carroll to offer these tapes into 'Wide Release' so that the rest of the world could witness this stuff. The deal was, we present the tapes exactly as they were shot. "No fancy shit, just run the tape." was her exact words.
So, from the very beginning, that's what we did. Most of the tapes where VHS, or VHS-C, so all the footage was digitized and organized onto Hard Drives. We used good VCR's, so it's the best transfer you can get, but a lot of these tapes are approaching the shelf life of Tape itself, so the limitations are apparent too. But, what you get is a near real time account of real people fucking the shit out of each other in a hotel room, and not one frame is cut out of it. It's like you're in the room, and that's pretty unique in 'Amateur Porn'.
Because the tapes were never meant for sale, they all have hand written codes, like "7U7D" which stands for "7 Up, 7 Down" meaning the chick took on seven guy's in a row. This is for real folks, I couldn't make it up.
So have you ever wondered why Alexis Golden's movies are always titled like "FLP" or "CPE"?
It's because Alexis was part of that community for a time, and to some extent still is, I think.
A lot of people bitch about how 'boring' the Porn Industry has become lately, but I don't agree. I learn something new all the time.
- Mark
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