Thomas Edison's VitaScope - The First Screen Kiss

[RockMan356]

Back in the day, this is as far as public porn can go...

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@RockMan356 Actually incorrect. Almost as soon as the camera became available to a wider user group people began to record pornography. According to Patrick Robertson's Film Facts, "the earliest pornographic motion picture which can definitely be dated is A L'Ecu d'Or ou la bonne auberge", made in France in around 1908.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince The plot cebtres around a weary soldier who has a tryst with an inn's servant girl. Robertson notes that the Argentine pornographic film El Satario might be even older; it has been dated to somewhere between 1907 and 1912.

Robertson further notes that "the oldest surviving pornographic films are contained in America's Kinsey Collection." One film demonstrates how early pornographic conventions were established.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince The German film Am Abend (c. 1910) is, as Robertson writes, "a ten-minute film which begins with a woman masturbating alone in her bedroom, and progresses to scenes of her with a man performing sex, fellatio and anal penetration." (Robertson, p. 66)

Sex has driven most media industries, from movies to the internet. Most streaming technology we take for granted today was pushed forward by those who wanted to exploit the new tech for profit

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince Currently the race is on to produce the forst 3D pornographic film, a dubious honour to be sure. This does show just how things work even if we don't want to acknowledge them.

While Edison's film was publicly risque to be sure, it was shot both to publicicise the new machine and embed the motion picture format in the minds of viewers used only to still pictures and live performance, in private there can be no doubt that far more lascivious subject matter was recorded.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@ChocolateFrogPrince It is widely acknowledged that almost all so called "stag films" recorded prior to 1950s has been lost, though significant finds detailing the porn careers of the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford have caused something of a stir. Even now the so called "leaked sex tape" is viewed as a way of gaining fame or renewing a fading career no matter how shallow or dubious.

As today, what went on behind the veil of respectability was a different proposition entirely.

[Daemonocracy]

@ChocolateFrogPrince And where can I watch Am Abend without getting a virus or Trojan loaded onto my computer?

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@Daemonocracy I wouldn't know. Why would you want to?

Whatever your reasons, I should imagine you'd have to search quite hard to even find a copy since it is a rare piece of cinematography. As with wearing condoms during stranger sex, I'd advise you to invest in decent antivirus and anti-spyware/malware if you are going to go on a search however.

[Daemonocracy]

@ChocolateFrogPrince  I want to see it because despite it's sexual nature, it is still a piece of cinema history.

[ChocolateFrogPrince]

@Daemonocracy It's more than likely in the hands of a privaye collector. I should imagine tht like most pornography it's both mindnumbingly boring and thoroughly predictable.

There's probably an online classic stag film forum soewhere where someone may have a rip. Search for it and you may get lucky.

[RockMan356]

@ChocolateFrogPrince I stand corrected

[vvasim]

dude

[TegsInvictus]

Didn't know any of that. Ta