This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.
Damian O'Flynn
- The Judge
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt one point announcer George Putnam, arguing for the banning of "obscene" materials, says, "This is a nation of laws". The uncredited producer of this film, Charles Keating--the founder of an "anti-pornography" organization called Citizens for Decent Literature, which actually produced the film--was on President Richard Nixon's Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969. He is the same Charles Keating who, as president of Lincoln Savings & Loan in the late 1980s, was convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud, racketeering and conspiracy due to his involvement in financial shenanigans which led to the collapse of Lincoln Savings, which ultimately cost the US government over $3 billion and which resulted in more than 23,000 depositors losing most or all of the money they had deposited in Lincoln Savings. He served 4-1/2 years in prison before being released in 1996.
- Quotes
George Putnam: Hello there. I'm George Putnam. I'd like to begin with a fact, a simple yet shocking fact. It is this - a floodtide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity and is threatening to pervert an entire generation of our American children.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits say "with George Putnam, outstanding news reporter"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Heavy Petting (1989)
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Brain Dead
The first 5 minutes and I thought this must be from the McCarthyite early 1950's, when the Communist menace spread like an ink blot across the map, and every New Deal liberal had an FBI tail. But, no-- It's 1965, and thanks to a liberal Supreme Court, sexual explicitness is spreading to magazines and, horror of horrors, to neighborhood news stands. So the same folks who brought us the McCarthy purges must again swing into action against this newest assault on God, country, and the missionary position. After all, these self- appointed watchdogs are well practiced in the art of subversion—of the First Amendment, that is.
No need to repeat consensus points made by others. The logic of this 60-minute screed is indeed puerile and on the order of "If you like hamburger, you'll love cannibalism". But then, the script was never intended as an appeal to reason; it's meant to rally those already believing that any kind of sex outside monogamous marriage and man-on-top is not only wrong, but just plain evil, and a "threat to the American Way". Of course, it doesn't hurt, as the Bible well knew, to provide a little titillation along with the righteous sermon to keep all those nodding heads awake.
But these folks know what they're doing. Like fundamentalists of all stripes, they know that if you control a person's sex life, you control the person. Putnam gives away the game in the last 5-minutes, which stresses the significance of a tightly regulated sex life to our God- ordained right-wing American society. In short, Hugh Hefner is not just an evil pornographer, he's downright un-American and a threat to the family, and so much for the First Amendment and the rest of us. Thanks be to TMC for reviving this curiosity, for these forces are still among us, going by the name of Falwell, Robertson, and Roman Catholic conservatives, among others. They may have lost the 1965 battle, but the Word of God is absolute, and so, unfortunately for our democracy, are their beliefs.
(In passing—those of us living in LA and of a certain age are quite familiar with the late George Putnam. Regrettably, he anchored a local news show for many years, where he pontificated nightly in the same pompously self-righteous manner as this 1965 diatribe, that is, until the Nixon scandals, among others, undid his credibility. Perhaps most revealing, he was the inspiration for the smugly vacuous Ted Baxter newsman on the old Mary Tyler Moore TV show. You know, the silver-haired guy who was clueless to everything but his own ego. How appropriate.)
No need to repeat consensus points made by others. The logic of this 60-minute screed is indeed puerile and on the order of "If you like hamburger, you'll love cannibalism". But then, the script was never intended as an appeal to reason; it's meant to rally those already believing that any kind of sex outside monogamous marriage and man-on-top is not only wrong, but just plain evil, and a "threat to the American Way". Of course, it doesn't hurt, as the Bible well knew, to provide a little titillation along with the righteous sermon to keep all those nodding heads awake.
But these folks know what they're doing. Like fundamentalists of all stripes, they know that if you control a person's sex life, you control the person. Putnam gives away the game in the last 5-minutes, which stresses the significance of a tightly regulated sex life to our God- ordained right-wing American society. In short, Hugh Hefner is not just an evil pornographer, he's downright un-American and a threat to the family, and so much for the First Amendment and the rest of us. Thanks be to TMC for reviving this curiosity, for these forces are still among us, going by the name of Falwell, Robertson, and Roman Catholic conservatives, among others. They may have lost the 1965 battle, but the Word of God is absolute, and so, unfortunately for our democracy, are their beliefs.
(In passing—those of us living in LA and of a certain age are quite familiar with the late George Putnam. Regrettably, he anchored a local news show for many years, where he pontificated nightly in the same pompously self-righteous manner as this 1965 diatribe, that is, until the Nixon scandals, among others, undid his credibility. Perhaps most revealing, he was the inspiration for the smugly vacuous Ted Baxter newsman on the old Mary Tyler Moore TV show. You know, the silver-haired guy who was clueless to everything but his own ego. How appropriate.)
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- dougdoepke
- Oct 10, 2009
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- Runtime29 minutes
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