COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Vintage pornographic films (16 mm, 8 mm, and super-8). Although they are mainly on gay male themes, some have heterosexual, lesbian, or pseudo-lesbian (for a heterosexual male audience) content. With the films are a few pieces of ephemera, including a mailing envelope from the Evergreen Club postmarked August 1973, and another mailer with an unopened invoice. With each film are notes made by Thomas Waugh as he was doing research for his book, Hard to imagine: Gay male eroticism in photography and film from their beginnings to Stonewall .
Dates
- 1940s-1973.
Creator
- Michel, Martin, 1919-1993 (Collector, Person)
- Waugh, Thomas, 1948- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
45 items. (45 items.)
Abstract
Vintage pornographic films (16 mm, 8 mm, and super-8). Although they are mainly on gay male themes, some have heterosexual, lesbian, or pseudo-lesbian (for a heterosexual male audience) content. With the films are a few pieces of ephemera, including a mailing envelope from the Evergreen Club postmarked August 1973, and another mailer with an unopened invoice. With each film are notes made by Thomas Waugh as he was doing research for his book, Hard to imagine: Gay male eroticism in photography and film from their beginnings to Stonewall .
Physical Description
Movie film
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- July 2014
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, July 2014
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, August 2014
NOTES
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- July 2014
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu