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js81 Member 87 Posts 6/06	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 8:42AM I know gonzo is a fairly new term but I was wondering if there were any golden age flicks that had such a format. Thanks. [Link]
ma meeshka Iconoclastic Member 3939 Posts 4/06	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 8:51AM [invalid URL removed]gonzo [Link]
juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 9:38AM "Golden Age Gonzo" is an oxymoron. With the advent of gonzo the Golden Age was over. [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 9:41AM juha wrote: With the advent of gonzo the Golden Age was over. Click to expand I thought the Golden Age ended with the prosecutions that followed the Meese Commission's biased report. To be clear, that would be when porn stopped being shown in most theaters and moved into the home video market. Edited by - hardware on 9/7/2006 9:42:49 AM [Link]
juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 9:48AM Hardware wrote: juha wrote: With the advent of gonzo the Golden Age was over. Click to expand I thought the Golden Age ended with the prosecutions that followed the Meese Commission's biased report. To be clear, that would be when porn stopped being shown in most theaters and moved into the home video market. Click to expand Hadn't the home video market already taken over when the report was released in 1986? I think the report was only the last nail in the coffin of the theaters. [Link]

juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 9:49AM But you agree with me that "Golden Age Gonzo" is an oxymoron? [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 9:54AM Sure. Gonzo started with Buttman in the early nineties, long after the end of the Golden Age. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 10:38AM Video killed the golden age. [Link]
juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 10:57AM Flash wrote: Video killed the golden age. Click to expand and the radio star [Link]
bigfoot Senior Member 1295 Posts 7/06	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 11:13AM Wouldn't it have to be "the Adventures of Buttman"? Many of those stars are long gone from the industry and this movie is often credited as the very first gonzo...so why not? [Link]
tritone Deactivated User 1009 Posts 4/03	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 11:49AM I don't think that "Golden Age Gonzo" is an oxymoron. When you use the term golden age you are talking about a specific time period in the annals of adult films. Gonzo is just describing a format where there is no plot or extended setup -- the movie just has wall to wall sex. So anyway, I don't see why there couldn't be an older film that was made during the "golden age" that fit that description. The closest I know of are the "Swedish Erotica" features, but even those had a bit of set-up before the sex. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 11:58AM Just wall to wall sex is an all sex film, which did exist in the Golden Age. Gonzo is a specific genre where the camera/camera man is acknoldged within the scenes and may participate in the scene. There might be one or two previous films where this set-up appeared however, John Stagliano made this format popular. [Link]
juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 12:23PM tritone wrote: Gonzo is just describing a format where there is no plot or extended setup -- the movie just has wall to wall sex. Click to expand Its not the lack of plot that defines gonzo. tritone wrote: So anyway, I don't see why there couldn't be an older film that was made during the "golden age" that fit that description. Click to expand The technical advance plays an important role. Back in the Golden Age the cameras were so big and heavy that it would have been a real challenge for the dp (no pun intended) to capture gonzo on film or tape. [Link]
Clam Digger Deactivated User Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. 2268 Posts 1/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 12:51PM Hardware wrote: Sure. Gonzo started with Buttman in the early nineties, long after the end of the Golden Age. Click to expand Ed Powers started the Bus stop series and Dirty Debs in late 1980's. On further review a search of iafd on 4-play shows Bruce Severn, John Stagliano and Ed Powers vid's in 1987/1988. Randy West starts around 1992/1993. I think the Gonzo name replace the old Pro/AM name at some point. Clam [Link]
saratoga120 Senior Member 1404 Posts 5/05	Posted - Sep 7 2006 : 10:25PM I think it's fair to say that the loops which were played in porno emporiums like New York's Show World were Gonzo in nature. The cumshot was more likely to land on a sweetie's face than in the theatrical releases, for instance. And there was no set-up other than boy walks through door and girl gets exuberantly naked and randy. So it's possible to see a lot of the porno leading ladies of yesteryear, who you might only associate with plot driven porn, in such moments. Kandi Barbour, Samantha Fox, Desiree Cousteau, Anna Ventura, heck, even Nanci Suiter (!) did 'em. Sorry, Dears are on. Gotta go listen. [Link]

kafka All-Star Member IAFD.com 1160 Posts 4/04	Posted - Sep 8 2006 : 12:03AM I think people are a little confused between gonzo porn and raincoater porn, which has a very thin plot, emphasis on anals and facials etc. 70's and early 80's film loops were raincoater but not gonzo. Once video took over, there were lots of raincoater videos made up of unrelated scenes linked by a girl watching and masturbating. [Link]
junglew Senior Member 1042 Posts 12/02	Posted - Sep 8 2006 : 3:08AM I believe that the first porno in the early 1900's were Gonzo. Feature films were shot during the day and the same equipment was used to film people having sex at night. The 8mm loops of the mid century were all Gonzo. It is porno films with "stories" that are the johnny come lately to the porno world. I wore out many a vcr's fast forward during the "Golen Age" of porno and I am glad it is partly over. Saratoga120 is correct about the early 16mm color stuff. The early porno that was shown in Dallas in the late 60's were all not Gonzo like, but true Gonzo. I have said it many times. If a 100 million dollar Hollywood film that pays 1 million for a screenplay can be boring, how much chance is there that a 10 thousand dollar porno script would be intertaining. Wayne In Dallas [Link]
Yankey Doodel Member 283 Posts 11/05	Posted - Sep 8 2006 : 8:02AM I'm not sure everyone is talking about the same thing. The way I understand it, gonzo just means that the cameraman interacts with the performers so it's like some people are just hanging out and fucking and one guy is filming it. Even if there's no set up or plot, if it's like the camera is just magically there then it's plain old all-sex porno. There were expose type movies back when where the stars were interviewed between scenes and stuff, but generally I think if there was any direction noticable during the sex it was just ineptitude or laziness, rather than an intentional way of giving it a casual, realistic style. [Link]
Gunzo Senior Member 1377 Posts 2/05	Posted - Sep 9 2006 : 5:59AM I never cared much for the early unformulated gonzo, I would say late 90s up to now is the golden age of gonzo. Just look at Manuel Ferrara's Anal Expedition and Brandon Iron's Good Source of Iron. It's the best thing since the remote-control. I think this 'golden age' thing is crap, because it just means there was a lot of money to be made - it doesn't say anything about the quality. [Link]
Brandon Iron BrandonIron.com 3832 Posts 3/02	Posted - Sep 10 2006 : 1:59AM Thanks, Gunzo! Honestly, I think there has never been so much good quality porn available in so many different mediums at such reasonable prices. I remember renting VHS tapes for $15 each....each!....for a 24 hour rental. These are good times for fans of pornography. [Link]
skronker Notable Legendary Icon Scopophiliac 9780 Posts 9/02	Posted - Sep 10 2006 : 2:13AM The Golden Age was over when it shifted from film to video, NY to LA ... Gonzo redeemed porn around 1990/91 ... though the very first Buttman had a script! I think "pure gonzo" flourished for awhile, and I would say the success of Anabolic made it more of a formula that had less to do with scenarios or personality ... just fuckin'. Soon it no longer applied to first-person camera and was just anything that wasn't a feature or strictly a pro-am tape. [Link]
skronker Notable Legendary Icon Scopophiliac 9780 Posts 9/02	Posted - Sep 10 2006 : 2:15AM Yes, this is the golden age of gonzo ... but gonzo on steroids. I'm not seeing too much of the artistry that Stagliano had 15 years ago, even in some of those he sponsors ... though, it's good stuff. [Link]
Mike Quasar Zero Tolerance Reluctant pornographer 1765 Posts 7/01	Posted - Sep 10 2006 : 2:15AM Any of the early Buttman stuff is certainly golden. I remember seeing "Buttman goes to Rio" in 91 and thinking that this was how all porn should be. At the time, I was writing scripts and working as a production assistant on feature sets and wondering why anyone bothered trying to make "real" movies when Buttman was clearly having much more fun. [Link]
skronker Notable Legendary Icon Scopophiliac 9780 Posts 9/02	Posted - Sep 10 2006 : 2:21AM Sheer genius. And still, genius. Sometimes, simpler=better. Edited by - skronker on 9/10/2006 2:22:28 AM [Link]

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