The Good Old Naughty Days

Early Adult Cinema

A fascinating chapter in the secret history of cinema, the belle epoque, and of sexual politics. All leaping over the social boundaries that defined early 20th-century Europe.

Right from the very first days of silent movies the camera seems to have been the perfect voyeuristic tool . An underground production system started taking shape very early on, allowing private collectors to satisfy their own secret passion for transgressive sex footage. These films were fabricated in a haphazard fashion in one afternoon with friends and local prostitutes lending a hand for a few cents.

All of them requested to remain anonymous of course which makes it impossible today to identify who really acted or directed them. In their own amusing way these images involve us in a very direct, physical and intimate relationship with the good old days.

Warning: This film contains graphic nudity and explicit sexual acts that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers.