Amusing scenes from 3 public domain exploitation and horror films. "Slaves in Bondage" (1937) has specialty fetish prostitutes rough-housing and spanking each other, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962) and "Horrors of Spider Island" (1960) feature cat fighting biotches (meow!). They’re neat time capsules of both the era and the initial, limited, and discreet method of distribution of this type of material,” says No Name Cinema founder and exhibition organizer Justin Clifford Rhody. “Exhibiting them by hanging them on a wall is taking them out of their original intended context, which was for private, personal viewing.” His family business, Movie Star News, started as a magazine store. Due to customer demand, he and his sister Paula started selling bondage and fetish photos using burlesque dancers like Baby Lake, Tempest Storm, and Blaze Starr as models. Very few of Klaw's photographs featured any nudity. You were likely considered more of a pervert for wanting to see this material rather than images of standard heterosexual intercourse,” says Rhody.

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Irving Klaw had an unusually close relationship with his sister Paula. The story of Irving and his business has primarily been told through her anecdotes. Paula often ran the front end of the store, but when Klaw began to produce his own photographs and films, Paula befriended the models, often treating them as her own daughters. When another photographer wasn't available, she would grab the camera and shoot the photos. In 1963, in an attempt to satisfy the courts, Irving destroyed his photographs and movies, Paula, unbeknownst to her brother, preserved his legacy – and her financial future – by hiding thousands of the images. After her brother's death, she became fiercely protective of his reputation and his work. Without Paula's foresight, Irving Klaw might have been just an odd, barely remembered footnote in the annals of pin-up history and Fifties puritanism. [9] Closing [ edit ] Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949. He served in the United States Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estes_Kefauver [Jun 2005]

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A Moral Legacy in Vintage Pinups: The Klaw Archives

Klaw relocated to Florida where he briefly returned to filmmaking in 1963, producing two films: Larry Wolk's Intimate Diary of an Artist's Model and Nature's Sweethearts, co-directing the latter. Photographer Bunny Yeager worked closely with him during this period. She had multiple duties on these films, including casting, writing dialog, etc. Unlike his previous movies, both pictures were exploitation "nudie cuties" that featured a number of topless women. Irving continued to photograph bondage in Miami as well, with models like Maria Stinger. In the early 1980s Movie Star News moved to 134 West 18th Street to avoid rising rents on 14th street. [10] Klaw also published and distributed illustrated adventure/bondage serials by fetish artists Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, Adolfo Ruiz and others.This public domain clip was rescued from oblivion by Something Weird Video and released on "Bizarro Sex Loops #20" A present-day parallel might be something like kink.com, known for prioritizing ethics and consent in their workplace,” says Rhody.