Posted on Duke Univ Library’s Flickr in reference to last night’s Mad Men episode: A billboard for Sherpix’s Stewardesses (1969) playing at Art Theater Guild theaters in Arizona. Sherpix was the distribution wing of the Guild, both owned by Louis K. Sher. ATG was a nationwide circuit of over 40 “art theaters” that began screening sexploitation and underground experimental films in the mid-1960s. A year after Stewardesses, Sherpix released Alex DeRenzy’s Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach, the first commercially distributed American film with hardcore imagery.
Psychedelicsex Kicks and Wild Hippie Orgy, both 1967 by San Francisco-based P.A.D. Productions. Distribpix picked it up and distributed it across the country in 1968, usually re-titled as Psychedelic Kicks. Some sexploitation was made by those within counterculture circles, even by recognized underground/experimental filmmakers. This is not one of those pictures. (Something Weird offers this on DVD-R: http://www.somethingweird.com/product_info.php?products_id=57980) (Pic originally came from http://petersmovieposters.com/index-trade-60s.html)
The Trip (from the Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1967): written by Jack Nicholson, produced and directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Bruce Dern. “Art Film”?
