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Post by Deeky on Aug 15, 2018 21:35:15 GMT -5
Deeky, this is the post where DoubleU gives a link to an archive where those 3 magazines above are supposed to be. As I mentioned in a previous post, I did do so suirfing of that webpage, and to fully utilize it requires a registration and password, as far as I know without having to pay any fee. What I did see was an inventory with lists of boxes of materials that had been donated to the archive. Maybe someone in L.A. can swing by and ask to see the magazines.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 15, 2018 22:51:12 GMT -5
Before getting back to the Serious Business of my newspaper searches, a bit of Comic relief. This Ad for Masters of Discipline, had me asking the question: Is the Backdoor X theatre the kind of house that would play Ed D Louie's HIM? Well, apparently, a lot of potential ticket buyers were asking that same question, so a note was added to the ad giving the answer. Click on closeup after the big one of the whole ad. Attachments:
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 16, 2018 0:50:54 GMT -5
Believe it or not, this is not my first rodeo for this type of research.
Do tell!
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 18, 2018 13:01:46 GMT -5
Now, THAT, is a Dildo, Dr. Kobb! And, what kind of a mask is that character wearing?
Well, back to the Search for HIM and my strategy, whch is no secret, and anyone else can use, and I encourage them to use, if they want to subject themselves to a lot of boredom in surfing through newspapers.
It might be unlikely, but with my search for showings of HIM, basically restricted to 1975, due to a lack of needed 1974 newspapers, I want to be sure there were no unlikely encore showings of the film in Chicago (I didn't find any, extending these searches into January of 1976, when we do know the film was still in release and shown in NY NYC at the 55th St. Playhouse).
I have also checked the Honolulu Star Bulletin, from March, 1974 thru August of 1976, and found no showings of HIM. The Tom Cat was the only all male house in that city until the Lavender Fox opened ca June of 1976.
Ads for the Tom Cat theater stopped in September of 1976, and the Tom Cat which the ads said patrons had to enter thru the Aquarius straight house, seems to have become the Aquarius 2 straight house, leaving the Lavender Fox as the only all male house advertising in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
I have not Checked the Honolulu Advertiser, since their movie ads all seemed to be the same as those in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, but that is a possibility for the future although for now, it is on the back burner.
The last ad in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for the Lavender Fox theater was in the September 3, 1976 edition.
Checking the rest of the month there were no more ads for that theater.
For right now, that is the end of my checking Honolulu movie ads.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 18, 2018 13:28:21 GMT -5
Now, THAT, is a Dildo, Dr. Kobb! It's bordering on Great American Challenge territory.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 18, 2018 13:33:53 GMT -5
Now, THAT, is a Dildo, Dr. Kobb! And, what kind of a mask is that character wearing? It's from a missing, presumed lost lizard sex video. I posted it to tease Choconado over his apparent lizard lust. I've been checking old newspaper ads trying to locate the full movie, with little luck in the matter.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 18, 2018 13:35:22 GMT -5
It will be another boring chore to do, but I will check the Philadelphia Daily News and the Detroit Free Press, thru January of 1976, in case there were encore showings of HIM at the Sansom theater and the Wood 6 # 1, listed in those newspapers, respectively.
Before doing that I will, once more, turn my attention to the most obvious and most likely places to find out where HIM played.
In this case, Los Angeles.
Data-Boy magazine was published in LA, had its review of HIM in their March 12, 1975 issue, and with magazines going on sale before their cover date, we can assume that the film was shown in LA prior to that date, sometime early in 1975.
I had previously not been able to find any LA newspapers in newspaper.com's listings, but doing a search on the film HIM, itself, as an "all male" film, found listings for the LA Times for July 1 and October 23 of 1974, but no ads for HIM.
In those listings, the "adult" films were all one one page, which will make my search much easier, if I can find the LA times on newspapers.com for 1975 thru March of that year.
One LA newspaper, and I don't remember if it was the Times or not, along with confining the adult films to one page, also adopted a policy of no display ads with photos, although they did allow the titles of the films to be printed, unlike the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News, which did not allow any titles of X rated films to be printed, the ads saying to call the theater for title.
If I can find the LA Times For March of 1975, and earlier in that year, I would still be able to find the ad for HIM, even if the policy of no display ads was in effect in that newspaper, at that time.
So, that is what the present state of my Film Detective work is.
And, to you other Film Detectives who are not members of newspapers.com, you can still do searches of any subject you want to, but you will only get the months and years yo specify in your results, with no titles of the newspapers the articles are in.
Some of you might be able to figure out combinations of Ed D Louie, HIM, and film about Jesus, that would get listings for month and year, and report them to me, and I could pursue them further, if you want to do that, which is less boring that surfing thru a newspaper on Friday of each week, for months at a time.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Aug 18, 2018 16:29:40 GMT -5
Now, THAT, is a Dildo, Dr. Kobb! And, what kind of a mask is that character wearing? It's from a missing, presumed lost lizard sex video. I posted it to tease Choconado over his apparent lizard lust. I've been checking old newspaper ads trying to locate the full movie, with little luck in the matter. Not impressed. We have two, you know; they're both attached and have spikes on the ends. Unfortunately quite impossible for us to perform the act depicted --amusing as it would certainly be. Also, do you primates REALLY carry your testes on the outside like that? Seems quite the safety hazard, all in all.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 18, 2018 16:56:09 GMT -5
Also, do you primates REALLY carry your testes on the outside like that? Seems quite the safety hazard, all in all. True, but it makes for better oral sex.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Aug 18, 2018 17:10:49 GMT -5
Also, do you primates REALLY carry your testes on the outside like that? Seems quite the safety hazard, all in all. True, but it makes for better oral sex. Oral sex? You must be able to do that because you have no venom glands. Here's a still from one of my species' favorites, Getting Tail. (Sorry for the lousy picture quality, I only have it on VHS).
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Post by Choconado on Aug 19, 2018 12:35:12 GMT -5
I have no idea what's happening here any longer.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 19, 2018 12:57:18 GMT -5
San Francisco in the 1970s was bonkers.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 19, 2018 16:00:23 GMT -5
I have no idea what's happening here any longer. Well, Choco, it is time to get back to the business of trying to find out more about Ed D Louie and HIM. And, in case anybody missed it, here is a repeat of the note at the bottom of the "Masters of Discipline" ad, which said that people had been making phone calls to the Back Door Cinema asking what type of film it was, just as I had needed to know, in case that house might have shown HIM, and apparently they weren't that type of movie house. Attachments:
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 19, 2018 16:12:53 GMT -5
So far I have not found the LA showing of HIM which I assumed would be very easy since I knew the date of the issue it was reviewed in Data-Boy magazine, which was an LA publication. But, I didn't find any showings of HIM for early 1975. I suppose that Data-Boy, like Screw, and the Village Voice, could have been a nationally circulated magazine, and the writer of the review could have seen the film somewhere else besides LA. The only way to know for sure would be to read the review, if he did tell where he saw the film, in which city and at what theater. I will continue to look at the adult movie sections of the LA newspaper, and maybe have success, although it is not going to be easy, as I assumed. Also, in Indianapolis, Indiana, there was a section of X rated movie ads, but apparently both the Indianapolis News, and the Indianapolis Star, both had a policy of not allowing the titles of X rated films to be given in the ads and one had to call the theaters for the titles. So, those two newspapers are of no help in finding out if Him could have played in that city. I'm attaching the ads that were identical in both of those newspapers from the Indianapolis News of Saturday, January 4, 1975, page 9. I also checked the Philadelphia Daily News through April of 1976, and although a lot of older films were re-run during that time, HIM was not among those reruns. Attachments:
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 20, 2018 0:01:09 GMT -5
I just finished my check on the Wood 6 house in Highland Park, and there were times when weeks or even months would go by when the ad would just say "feature to be announced, plus second feature."
Very boring, but not satisfying because there could have been an encore showing of HIM during those times.
Now, it will be back to LA.
I'm just wondering if HIM could have premiered on the West Coast at the same time it premiered in NYC, or soon after that first run.
So, I'm going back to March of 1974 and forward into early 1976, and hopefully will have some results, although there are a lot of complications.
While newspapers,com lacks a lot of newspapers I would have expected it to have more of the ones I need for this project, although I'd say it has been worth the investment, for what we've learned about the distribution of HIM, and also for other stuff that I am interested in learning about thru old newspaper reports.
For example, finding out just who that Doomsday Prophetess of 1965 was, that I've wondered about all these years, and Brother Dave Gardner's Major Misunderstaing in 1962 with the Atlanta Police Department over having an excessive number of amphetemine pills.
And, altho Brother Dave got the misunderstandng cleared up by producing a copy of his prescription for such large number of pills, and $5,000.00 in lawyer's fees, many people consider that episode the reason Brother Dave disappeared from national television, and it marked his Fall From Grace, and the eventual ruination of his career, which finally resulted in a prison sentence for not filing and paying Federal income tax returns.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 20, 2018 10:22:49 GMT -5
An Excessive Number of Amphetamine Pills would be a great album title. I'm thinking early Nineties industrial.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 20, 2018 13:28:52 GMT -5
Deeky, the legend and lore of Benzedrine, altho I think that brand name for ampeheamine was later supplanted by Dexedrine, is that the Beatnicks were breaking open non prescription Benzedrine inhalers, and squeezing the drug out of its cotton base, into their beer, to get high.
In On the Road, Jack Kerouac's novel that defined a (Beat) generation, the hero, Sal Paradise, or was it his buddy Dean Moriarity, visited a friend of theirs who had 30 Benzedrine inhalers scattered around his residence.
I read the magazine (was it Colliers magazine?) article, "Farewell to Benzedrine Benders," written in 1949, after Smith, French and Kline (where Aleister Croweley visited on his US tour), changed the drug in the inhalers from Benzedrine to Benzedrex.
I did try sniffing a Benzedrex inhaler, probably excessively, and all it did was just give me a nasal infection.
But, believe it or not, there are some present day youngsters who, learning of the folklore surrounding Benzedrine inhalers, are breaking open their benzedrex inhalers and squeezing out the liquid drug into their beer and drinking it, and claim they get a good high from it.
That is something I would never have done, because just the smell of the Benzedrex inhaler made me know it was something that would be harmful to swallow orally.
This has noting to do whatever with finding more playdates for Ed D Louie's HIM, and is getting the thread off subject, so I'm not writng any more about Benzedrine.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 21, 2018 1:27:35 GMT -5
That was all news to me. I understand wanting to keep the focus on finding the lost film, but thanks for the aside about Benzedrine abuse.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 21, 2018 3:23:09 GMT -5
Glad I could enlighten you, Dr. Kobb. The Benzedrine brand name is still used, the trademark owners selling it to some "natural" drug manufacturers.
Of course it is no longer an amphetamine drug.
I suppose I can do a net search to find out exactly what is in the present day benzedrine.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 21, 2018 3:23:27 GMT -5
The Search for HIM playing in LA is not very satisfying, with my going from pessimism to optimism, to pessimism on finding any ads for its showing in that city.
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