Vintage Erotica Anno 1920
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Actor: Vintage Erotica Anno 1920Brand: Ryko Distribution
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Cult Epics
Movie Reviews of Vintage Erotica Anno 1920
Movie Review: The Roaring 20s
Summary: 4 Stars
Roughly two seconds after someone invents a new technology, someone else will use that technology for sex. Almost as soon as William Kennedy Dickson invented his hand-cranked mutoscope, someone else put it to use in a series of films called "What the Butler Saw".
The films on "Vintage Erotica Anno 1920" are not the oldest surviving erotic films. The Kinsey Collection holds reels from the late 1800's and early 1900s, featuring acts such as anal sex and fellatio, showing that modern eroticism isn't so different from what our great-grandparents were into.
All of the films on this DVD are French, mostly used as entertainment for brothels of that era, and most likely featuring prostitutes in the cast. They are very much "hardcore", depicting sex acts not very different from what you would see in modern erotic films. I was personally surprised at the amount of girl/girl and threesome scenes, as I had assumed this was more of a modern fascination, but then everything old is new again. All of the films are quite short, but there is quite a lot on this DVD to keep you entertained. The atmosphere is definitely "classier" than modern films, and every thing has a touch of artistry to it. Some of them are silly, and clearly played for laughs rather than stimulation. My two favorite films were a threesome of folks in harlequin suits doing their thing to Debussy's "Clair de Lune", and an animated cartoon that is absolutely hilarious.
As can be expected from films this old, they aren't in the best of shape. They were not made for posterity, and I imagine that none of the people involved in making them considered that people would still be watching them almost 100 years later. Unfortunately, little has been done in terms of preservation or restoration, and a few of the films are almost unwatchable due to their scratchy nature. There are also no subtitles, which is a shame. Like all silent films, there are intercut "dialog scenes", and it shouldn't have taken to much effort to translate and subtitle these scenes.
Along with the films, there is a slideshow featuring a collection of nude photography from there era. These are much better preserved, and the girls are much more beautiful than what you can see in the films. It is a really nice extra feature to this DVD.
Summary of Vintage Erotica Anno 1920
Vintage Erotica Anno 1920As we enter the 3rd millennium, we tend to believe that eroticism, and its cinema in particular was born in the late 60's. In order to refute this confabulation, the Vintage Erotica collection has decided to unveil the physical attributes that our grandfathers exhibited with wealth and good nature on their reels. After the horrors of the First World War, a sultry madness takes hold of the French society that no authority can stop. The clandestine cinema is commercialized at the back of specialized booksellers and whorehouses or very delighted customers, through short films. Costumed as priests and nuns, ballet dancers, satyrs, sparrow, apes, telegraph operator, in monk or in bellboy, nevermind, everything is a pretext to describe love affairs which crudeness and humor have nothing to envy to be contemporary porn cinema....
Features include 18 remastered short films, Film Selection and a Photo Gallery circa 1920
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