Forbidden Cinema Presents Vintage Smokers Of The 1920s & 1930s

2016-03-01

This scintillating collection of vintage X-rated films from the 1920s and 30s is just as steamy and sleazy as anything made today! It was almost immediately after the invention of the motion picture camera that the first pornographic films went into production. While those early movies slipped through by masquerading as "art films," the increased censorship of the 1920s meant that these raunchy pictures had to be watched behind closed doors - at brothels, gentlemen's clubs, firehouses, and down in basements. These illegal productions were called stag films, blue movies, or "smokers." Even the processing of these films had to be kept secret, with many of them developed in bathtubs that once were used to make bootleg Ωwho had one of these racy shockers in their possession.