30 Oct 2007
British Blue Movies
Mary Millington - probably our best known classic porn star.
For those of you who aren't British, you might be surprised to hear that we've been making porn over here for about as long as everyone else has. It's just that we tend not to talk about it too much - we're British.
That perhaps explains the lack of 'classic' content on British Blue Movies. I can assure you that we've been filming porn for a good few decades over here, even if we don't have as iconic a background as America or Japan.
Back in the 70s, for instance, whilst America was undergoing something of a revelation with movies like Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat, we were going down more 'comedic routes' with our porn.
The classic bawdy comedy from Benny Hill, Frankie Howerd and the Carry On film series had just started to fade in popularity, but it didn't stop the porn industry from trying to cash in on it with some very poor offerings that ended up being neither porn nor comedy. They were crap.
There is an undiscovered mound of vintage British porn out there but it seems that it doesn't want to be seen or nobody really wants to release. It should be said though that this particular site wasn't a disappointment.
After all, a small amount of retro British content is better than the absolutely zero amount of British content that was available beforehand. And that really is not an exaggeration - we're not very good at retro.
Posted by Steve 14:21:00
