The "Duck and Cover" of 1960's porn: "Perversion for Profit" (Note: Sexual Content)

[Stinky The Clown]

The campy public service flick, Duck and Cover has long been celebrated as a campy look back to the 1950s and 60s, and life in Cold War America.

"Perversion for Profit" is in the public domain and available for free download at the Prelinger Archives. Here is a link to part one: http://www.archive.org/details/Perversi1965

In this right wing, moralizing, tome thumping, Calvinist lecture, they show a montage of underground and news stand soft porn of the era, link it to Communism (doh!) and in the process show how innocent we were, how little we've changed, and how silly moral crusading really is.

Enjoy it.

[cliffordu]

1. I REMEMBER that sextet magazine....

:rofl:

[glen123098]

2. LMAO this is hillarious.

He even tries to say that "girlie" magazines are promoting bestiality because there is a goat in one of the pictures. LMAO!

[Sparkly]

3. I love how much porn they show to tell you not to look at porn

I collect antiquarian books, and they did that a lot wayyy back when, too. Books warning you NOT to do this or that went into the most explicit detail of exactly what these immoral, forbidden acts were like!

Cracks me up.

Love how he says at the end you should form a neighborhood committee and call the police when you see porn sold anywhere.

:rofl:

[Touchdown]

15. I lover how he raises his voice periodically when he says certain words.

like...


Venereal Disease!

The Homosexuals!

Girly Magazines!!!!

:rofl:

[Touchdown]

4. Charles Keating bankrolled this.

:rofl: He was screwing millions out of their money until the late 80s the whole time he was warning the rest of us about "the evils of the HOMOSEXUALS!"

Look at it! Just look at those immoral, filthy pictures. Now look at another one, and another, and another! :rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I didn't make the connection. It was *that* Charles Keating??

[JHB]

Yep. Using one of the oldest tricks in the book...

Backing and promoting moralizing campaigns to win kudos (and influence) as a "fine, upstanding leading citizen."

Perfect cover for luring in and bilking retirees.

[derby378]

17. I saw every disgusting scene in this film - TWICE!

I love that old line. Sounds like it describes this to a T.

[Sparkly]

23. Reminds me of the media response to Janet Jackson's breast.

That should never be seen on television! Let's see it again, in slow motion!

Modern example of the same nonsense -- gotta see a lot of what we're not supposed to see, just to make sure it's absolutely clear that we aren't supposed to see it.

[sharp_stick]

6. I watched those a few weeks ago

just too funny how much porn they show you while telling you not to watch porn.

I'll put money on this guy being about 10 feet deep in the closet up until the day he died.

[Touchdown]

8. According to someone in the reviews, the guy is still alive and writes for Newsmax.

:rofl:

[Touchdown]

7. Here's a link to part II, because you haven't seen enough enough of THIS FILTH, So look some more!

http://www.archive.org/details/Perversi1965_2

[japple]

9. The review are hysterical! Here's one of my favorites.

Reviewer: TheRivers - - May 27, 2010
Subject: Very heartening to see such effort
I appreciate the effort of the person or his motive immaterial of his doings. Now how different is the American society even now? That time it was magazines and books and now its internet. Although it has been said that the communists are partly responsible for that now whom do we attribute responsibility? Its the parents of these children. At a time when it much more easier to detract youth, parents are not worried what his or her child is upto. They leave their children on roads when they come to their teens? There is a meaning for sex, it is meant for a particular activity in nature which is to enhance the species. No other animal I believe, in the world uses sex for self gratification. And man being an evolved creature, doing such things speaks that there is something wrong with the mind. It is the duty of the government and parents to keep and eye on the youth. This is not to curb their freedom but to channelize their energy.

[Touchdown]

10. Oh' this brought out the time capsule prisoners.

They're talking like they just stepped out of a Baptist Church... in 1963.:rofl:

The comments must be read!

[NNN0LHI]

11. This reminds me about a story of a guy who was getting a Rorschach test

Every time the doctor showed the guy a new Rorschach slide the patient said it looked exactly like a naked woman to him.

The doctor immediately concluded the patient must be a sexual deviant.

Then the patient reminded the doctor that he was the one who was making him look at all that pornographic filth.

Don

[jp11]

12. Just looking at the pics you linked.

The first and last could be for army recruitment, caption 1 "join our armed forces and reach peak physical condition", caption 3 "ladies love a man in uniform", and of course let us not forget 'Perversion for Profit', today it would be captioned 'Oil and Gas industry working for America', or alternatively represent just about any big business.

[Touchdown]

13. Kicking for our traditional values!

With a suggestion of beast... :kick:

[ThatsMyBarack]

14. Whenever I see old films like these....

I think of how hysterically funny it would be to see it done up as an MST3K short! :rofl:

[Archae]

16. George Putnam changed his views.

In 1965, Putnam narrated a film entitled Perversion for Profit, in which he warned viewers about magazines containing nudity and homosexual material, saying homosexuals were perverts and misfits. The film was financed by Charles Keating. However, by the 1980s Putnam had changed his views. He stated on his 'Talk Back' show that he felt gays were born that way, and added many of his friends and coworkers were gay and good people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Putnam_(newsman)

[JanMichael]

21. This part of the wiki page is interesting:

His political views...he apparently changed them more than once.

"But those people have never bothered to determine my background: Farmer-Labor Party, Socialist Party, lifelong member of the NAACP, member of the Urban League. I went through the Depression, and my father was reduced to selling peanuts door-to-door. Then, because of that, I fell in love with Franklin D. Roosevelt. I've been a lifelong Democrat. I'm a conservative Democrat."

While I don't like conservative dems it seems this guy was more open to ideas than many.

Weird, eh?

[Puregonzo1188]

18. Love it! I have to confess I've seen this several times and have even shown it to other people.

So many great moments, like the non-cited statistic that no matter who purchased porn, 95% ends up in the ends of children, or citing "innumerable sociologist," or linking porn to weakening our resolve against the "communist plot."

Excellent and very funny. My favorite scare film, though it's in close competition with "Boys Beware."

[Sparkly]

22. I loved the non-graphed "charts"

With magic marker lines drawn to show a steep increase, related to no actual numbers that I could see!!

:rofl:

[Joe Fields]

19. What a coincidence. Why, I was whacking off to this just the other day.

[Rex]

20. Hahaha! So funny...what total idiots we were back then. No idea how to

brainwash people like todays Foxnews or CBN channel. Wrap it up in a pretty package all timed perfectly, these old propaganda videos actually showed nude women! I wonder how many young boys had perverted acts because they watched the movie! :rofl: