Pornographic movie

Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. Pornographic films have much in common with other forms of pornography. Pornography is often referred to as "porn" and a pornographic work as "a porno".

Overview

The movie camera has been used for pornography throughout its history, but pornographic movies were for most of that time typically available only by underground distribution, for projection at home or in private clubs.

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Pornographic movies were widespread in the silent movie era of the 1920s, and were often shown in brothels.

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Silent movie - 1920s - Brothel

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More permissive legislation permitted the rise of "XXX-rated" movie theaters in the United States in the 1970s. There was also a proliferation of coin-operated "movie booths" in sex shops that displayed pornographic "loops" (so-called because they projected a movie from film arranged in a continuous loop).

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Movie theater - United States - 1970s - Sex shop

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At that time, pornographic movies even approached acceptance into the mainstream movie industry, with films such as Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door and Gerard Damiano's 1972 film The Devil in Miss Jones being shot on film with high production values, and grossing substantial amounts in movie theaters.

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Deep Throat - Behind the Green Door - Gerard Damiano - 1972 - The Devil in Miss Jones - Production values

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With the arrival of the home video cassette recorder in the 1980s, the pornographic movie industry grew massively, allowing people not only to view pornography in the privacy of their own home without having to go out to a theater, but also to make their own pornography. Video production is much cheaper than shooting and editing on film, and has thus displaced production on film for almost all pornographic movies.

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Home - Video cassette recorder - 1980s

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With the advent of the Internet and DVDs, the production and distribution of pornographic movies has become even easier and it is a huge business involving at least hundreds of filmmakers all over the world, and thousands of performers. With ~20,000 feature length films a year in the US alone, the adult movie industry is the biggest branch of film industry in the world.

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Internet - DVD

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