November 30, 2007

Vintage Gay Porn Purchases From Ebay

I have been working on a really big and really fun project lately. Along with the vintage gay porn magazines that I have been collecting for a number of years, I recently started buying up old gay porn movies on 8mm and Super 8. For you youngsters out there, that's FILM. As is celluloid.

I bought a few here and there years ago just on a lark because I liked the boxes, but a few months ago I spotted a whole box of 8mm movies at my favorite local thrift store. I thought about it, rummaged through them, then left. I walked to the car, but before I could get away, I marched right back and bought all they had. I wasn't sure what to do with them, but I figured I would think of something.

A couple weeks later, the same store had two more boxes of 8mm porn movies, so here I go, plunking down another couple hundred dollars for obsolete technology!

After I added a few more titles from other sources to my collection, I decided it was time to do my homework find out if any of these old movies had been re-released on VHS or DVD. I've really learned a lot about vintage porn over the past few months! I can now identify a Brentwood Film or a Falcon movie just by the model number even if it's just stamped on a plain white box.

I set up a projector and screen in my spare room and I have been methodically watching each movie one by one. I separate the movies that I know for sure are copyright protected and do extensive research to determine if the rest have been re-issued by someone else. After careful research, I believe I have enough vintage gay porn footage from those old 8mm movies to put out 10 or 20 DVDs at about 2 hours each.

Previewing these old movies, most of which have just plain white boxes with no information, has been like playing detective. Every time I put a reel on the projector, I have no idea what it's going to be! I've had to create a database to keep track of them - at least by description. Most of them fall into the vague category of "Two twinks fucking on a bed," but there have also been some real gems! I've so far only separated them into "Hunks", "Twinks", "Kinky", and (gulp) "Straight". I will then sub-divide each of those into the appropriate two-hour packages. BTW, the Straight movies are actually the most vintage, going back to the 1950's!.

I am now so hooked on this 8mm movie re-issue project that I am even buying shit from Ebay! When I have missing parts of a series I need for my collection, I check Ebay. And I am also searching Ebay for the magazines that were printed to promote the movies back in the day. That way, I can scan the magazines and add little slide show galleries on the DVD Extras.

To give you an idea what I am talking about, the one picture is from "Games And Fun", an 8mm movie with it's original box. The other picture is from the magazine put out to go along with the movie I already own called "Recycled Suds". (Yes, Virginia, it's a PISS movie!)

As I get closer to putting out these vintage gay porn movies on DVD, you will be hearing a lot more about this fascinating project! In the meantime, join the Lavender Lounge VIP Room to get a taste of my giant collection of vintage porn stills, or patronize on of my recommended vintage porn sponsors.

Posted by lavenderlounge at 9:20 PM

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