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Helga's creator is an energetic German film distributor named Hanns Eckelcamp, who thought that "the development of human life" might make a jolly subject for a feature film. He slapped together Helga on a budget of $200,000 and watched in astonishment as the film grossed $3,500,000 in Germany alone. Inspired by Helga's triumph, other producers quickly jumped into the enlightenment-movie business. Among the titles that have been doing boffo business in Germany are Miracle of Love, The Perfect Marriage, and You, an account of masturbation and its tension-easing benefits narrated...
...covering the entire city of Boston, I was shipping out to Lowell, I was shipping to Fall River, New Bedford, we covered Providence, I had a distributor down in Providence, and I had one in Brockton, I had one in Holbrook, Randolph, all of Quincy, Lynn, Revere, I had all around, within a radius of 25, 30 miles of Boston, we covered, each driver covered a different area. I covered quite a bit. But the outside sales were not to be compared to the sales in the city. I had about 30,000 in Boston. All over the city...
...tried to move out of town with it, but the cost of distribution out of town is prohibitive. You take it out to Framingham, or go up to Winchester, and put out 100 papers, the trip to there isn't worth it. And if you get a distributor up there, they want too much. There wasn't any concentrated group; it wasn't the South End; the South End had about 80,000 people, which was the ideal place where you circulate at a minimum cost. I had a store on every corner see. And it made it fine...
Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman, a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house circuit until Distributor Radley Metzger, a sometime actor and film editor, had the bright idea of booking it into a New York art theater. Since 1966, the film, which Metzger bought for $75,000, has grossed more than $3,000,000, and the money is still rolling...
Silverglate also said that Tisdale would probably throw out on technicalities the sales-to-minors charges against Gordon R. Foote Jr. '69 and Paul Thompson, a wholesale distributor of underground newspapers. If the nine other sellers to minors are convicted, Jared Rossman '71 will be the only Harvard student involved in the appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court...