6/10
The business of French Postcards
14 June 2008
Johann Schwarzer had been making dirty motion pictures for a couple of years when he turned out this rather amusing one, a full reel in length, about the travails of a photographer who specializes in feelthy pictures. We see the photographer posing his model in various states of undress and a mild payoff as a woman comes in to berate him and his customers for engaging in pornography.

The humor in the piece consists of the workaday attitude of the people involved, the uncaring manner in which the woman undresses and puts on shawls that accentuate her bosom.

Of course, the whole idea was to provide an excuse to show naked women. Just as the first paying sites on the Internet were the porn sites, so the first commercial home-grown movies in Austria were this sort. A surprising number of them survive in the Vienna film archives.... or perhaps it isn't so surprising.
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