Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Electric Blue a Bygone Age.

The birth of the video recorder saw a flourish of entrepreneurs opening shops to rent and sell video films and just about everything we watched on TV. There was also the ability to video from your own TV for personal use and all you would need was a few wires, another video recorder and hey presto you had an illegal business. Making copies of rented films helped make a flourishing market of pirated videos. Why rent when your mate has done a copy and was cheaper.

The reason for this topic is Electric Blue, the top shelve soft core porn video magazine about has risky as it got here in the UK unless you could get your hands on something under the counter, imported stuff, nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

A long with glamor models in different stages of undress the earlier videos any way had the feel of Playboy with short video documentaries and vox pops. The videos had a host like in the first edition Fiona Richmond, a British glamor model, and actress with a cameo from American Marilyn Chambers, (of Behind the Green Door fame).Another segment of the video was archive nude footage of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Joanna Lumley, Jayne Mansfield, Jacqueline Bisset and Joanna Lumley.

The videos were made up like a magazine with sequence of soft porn like the world’s oldest whorehouse staff with grannies where the clientele are older than the hookers. In addition, they would use cartoons like, (Snow White and the Seven Perverts) loosely based on the Snow White legend.

Today video shops are long gone, consigned to history and car boot sales. The whole rental market has disappeared with the internet and dedicated movie channels like Sky Movies.

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