DEEP THROAT,1972 - 16mm Film, Linda Lovelace, Very Rare Vintage B/W Reel HCP

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DEEP THROAT,1972 - 16mm Film, Linda Lovelace, Very Rare Vintage B/W Reel HCP:
$750.00

DEEP THROAT,1972 - 16mm Film, Linda Lovelace, Very Rare Vintage B/W Reel Hard CoreWhatever the truth about money earned (see below), and looking beyond the films many aesthetic shortcomings, Deep Throat is still in all certainly a part of film history, providing a watershed moment that changed the way society as whole views pornography down to this very moment.The lucky buyer of this extremely rare copy of Deep Throat will own a piece of history!Vintage 16mm, uncertain length, no case.A true collector\'s item, this copy came from an estate in Los Angeles, California. One single 15\" reel as shown, sold As-Is.Film will be shipped insured and recipient\'s signature will be required for delivery confirmation.From Wikipedia:
Deep Throat is a 1972 American pornographic film that was at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn. The film was written and directed by Gerard Damiano (who was listed in the credits as \"Jerry Gerard\"), produced by Louis Peraino (credited as \"Lou Perry\"), and starring Linda Lovelace (the pseudonym given to Linda Susan Boreman).One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot, character development, and relatively high production values, Deep Throat earned mainstream attention and launched the \"porno chic\" trend, even though the film was banned in some jurisdictions and was the subject of obscenity trials.In a March 1973 column, critic Roger Ebert gave the film a rare \"no star\" rating and wrote: \"It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn\'t worth the effort.\"Al Goldstein wrote a rave review in his SCREW magazine, saying, \"I was never so moved by any theatrical performance since stuttering through my own bar mitzvah.\"Deep Throat officially premiered at the World Theater in New York on June 12, 1972, and was advertised in The New York Times under the bowdlerized title Throat.The film\'s popularity helped launch a brief period of upper-middle class interest in explicit pornography referred to by Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times as \"porno chic.\" Several mainstream celebrities admitted to having seen Deep Throat, including Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Truman Capote, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Carson, Spiro Agnew, and Frank Sinatra. Barbara Walters mentions having seen the film in her autobiography, Audition: A Memoir. Jimmy McMillan considers it to be his favorite film.The film\'s title soon became a pop culture reference, most notably when Howard Simons, the then-managing editor of The Washington Post, chose \"Deep Throat\" as the code name for a well-guarded secret Watergate inside informant about the 1972-1974 political scandals that plagued the administration of President Richard Nixon, many years later revealed to be assistant FBI director Mark Felt shortly before he died. The scenes involving Linda Lovelace were shot in North Miami, Florida, over six days in January 1972. The interior scenes were shot at a hotel between 123rd and 124th Streets on Biscayne Boulevard, then known as the Voyager Inn. The building was subsequently converted to a dormitory for Johnson & Wales University. The scenes involving Carol Connors were shot in New York City.The movie was produced by Louis \"Butchie\" Peraino, who was listed in the credits as \"Lou Perry.\" Peraino was the owner of Plymouth Distributing, which he later renamed Arrow Film & Video. The entire production cost of $22,500, and an additional $25,000 for music, was provided by Peraino\'s father Anthony Peraino, a member of the Colombo crime family. Gerard Damiano, who had rights to one-third of the profits, was reportedly paid a lump sum of $25,000 once the film became popular and was forced out of the partnership. The film was then distributed by a network of Mafia-connected associates of the Peraino family. Deep Throat grossed $1 million in its first seven weeks of release in 1972, including a then-porn film single-screen record of $30,033 in its opening week at New York City\'s New World Theater. The film made a then-record $3 million in its first six months of release, and was still ranked among the top 10 highest-grossing films, as ranked by Daily Variety, 48 weeks after its release. Estimates of the film\'s total revenues have varied widely: numbers as high as $600 million have been cited, which would make Deep Throat one of the highest-grossing films of all time. With an average ticket price of $5, box-office takings of $600 million would imply 120 million admissions, an unrealistic figure. Although subsequent sales of the film on home video certainly brought additional revenue, the FBI\'s estimate that the film produced an income of approximately $100 million may be closer to the truth. Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times also argues for a lower figure in a February 2005 article, pointing out that Deep Throat was banned outright in large parts of the US (as well as many other countries), and only tended to find screenings in a small network of adult theaters in larger urban centers. The directors of the documentary Inside Deep Throat responded to the article, suggesting that actual revenues from the film were possibly even higher than the $600 million figure. Hiltzik was unsatisfied with the directors\' response, writing that their method was to \"construct a seemingly solid box office figure out of layers and layers of speculation piled upon a foundation of sand.\"
~ From WikipediaWhatever the truth about money earned, and looking beyond the films many aesthetic shortcomings, Deep Throat is still in all certainly a part of film history, providing a watershed moment that changed the way society as whole views pornography down to this very moment.The lucky buyer of this extremely rare copy of Deep Throat will own a piece of history!Vintage 16mm, uncertain length, no case.A true collector\'s item, this copy came from an estate in Los Angeles, California. One single 15\" reel as shown, sold As-Is.Film will be shipped insured and recipient\'s signature will be required for delivery confirmation.