Busty Bombshells of the Atom Age

Vintage Erotica

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42nd Street Pete presents a three hour set of vintage erotic film from the 1950s and 1960s. These were one-reeler 8mm films that in their day would have been regarded as pornographic. Now they are simply quaint. They were designed to take advantage of the growth in home projection equipment. For the first time Americans had some say in what they could watch in the privacy of their own homes. Many signed up for a “Film of the Month” from firms like Vanity Films, whose work is featured here.

Pete’s speciality in this collection is busty women. He seems to have an inexhaustible library of this stuff to choose from. It must be said that some of the women could lose a few pounds but they had it all where it counted to lascivious old men. Technically the films were not great – no sound, soft focus, and a minimum of acting and plot. Indeed one poor young lady seems afflicted with a terrible nervous twitch that only allows her to stand there swinging her bottom from side to side, much like a tailless dog. Others don’t even make a pretence of moving around, but just turn a little this way and that for the best shots of their massive mammaries.

There are no naughty bits shown except breasts – the U.S. wasn’t quite ready yet for such depravity as full-on nudity. That had to wait until the 1970s when films like Deep Throat redefined the genre. Until then anything likely to inflame the male libido was respectably covered in “passion-killer” knickers, suspender belts and stockings. There are certainly no sex scenes. Generally the films followed the old formula of “get your gear off and roll around on the bed for a bit”. There simply wasn’t enough film on a single reel for anything else.

These days we would look at these films and laugh, but in the atomic age they were a revolution. Americans now had some freedom to decide what they would watch despite the wowsers. Once they had that freedom they were only going to give it up with a fight. That fight is still continuing.

As usual Pete has included a booklet of comments about the films and the “actresses” that puts them in their historical context.

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