for many months, on eBay, a seller would post photos that he labeled “NOVA” – but often, I wasn’t quite sure if he had labelled them correctly, so I would save them as “NOVA_question” and I have about 30 or so of these on my hard drive. So, is the guy above a NOVA model? and if so, is this him below, in a NOVA film called Sea Cadets?? – and then, of course, what is his name, and which short film was he in?
of course, not til I am confident that he’s a NOVA model, will i tag the post “NOVA”
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It is the same guy, and his name is Ross Jordan. The scene he is in is called the Boys In The Boat with Buck Williams. According to GEVI website he made about 5 or 6 loops over a couple of years for Nebula video and Filmco video. The tattoo on his arm is a rose and reads Bobby.
great eye on the tattoo!
gotta wonder if “BOBBY” is his real name, or a lover’s name!
Oooh, I helped you with a Nova question a month or two back, and I think I found this one too … pretty sure that’s Ross Jordan:
https://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/S/1/28601.html
… from the first scene in Sea Cadets called Boys In The Boat:
https://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/L/1/6091.html
Clues: the tattoo on his gevi page looks like a match with your solo pic; the blanket beneath them on the bed seems like it has the same pattern when you hover over the cover image for their scene; and in that same pic, the headboard has kind of a shelf, part of which can be seen.
Nova seems like more of an umbrella term, I’d say automatically include Nebula plus some other distributor studios as well, like Le Salon (who was one of the studios listed on the last one with Greg Dale) or Mustang, which is who appears to have first made or distributed the Boys In The Boat scene when it was just a loop. It had a numbering system, SCF-5, wonder what SCF stood for?
thank you, gentlemen!
SCF seems to mean Sea Cadet Films! Searching my hard drive, I see I sold two 8MM’s (SCF1 and SCF6) back in 2007.
as far as Zepher’s point about which studio to credit, if possible I try to go with who PRODUCED a film, as opposed to who distributed (LeSalon is a great example of a company that distributed a lot… Al Parker sold his whole outfit to Lesalon when he was desperate for cash…)
but yes, Nebula Studios is who I should likely add when talking NOVA..wish I had more info on their relationship that GEVI’s “NEBULA – Used to label video collections of film loops made before Nova started (1977) but using Nova’s video numbering sequence. Presumably made in connection with Robert Walters.”
And GEVI has awesome info at the bottom of the pages of films regarding advertising, sometimes the dates are much earlier than he credits at the top. i.e SEA CADTES, 1980 Nebula…. but at the bottom of page, review and ads in late 1976 and early 1977!
I didn’t see the previous comment when I left mine, must have left this tab open while I was doing whatever else I was doing last night and forgot to refresh the page. Good job ‘Steelcity’ !
Glad to know that the SCF clue was worth investigating, and how you were able to track it down in part using that. I had read the same couple of sentences about Nova – Nebula’s relationship on gevi that you did, and when you add in companies that merely distributed loops and films it does lead to a lot of mistaken identities. The producer does seem like the best way to label something, when known. So I guess re: these “Nova” pics you grabbed off of ebay, in the future just use that as a hint rather than a certainty. Since Nova could have been either the producer and/or the distributor, even if that was the name that appeared on some glossy mags, which makes it look as if they made it. How confusing!
oh, while “Steelcity” posted in earlier, it was held for approval til this morning – that’s why you didn’t see it last night.
the 8MM’s i had barely had any clue as to who made them in the packaging – and who knows how they were then turned into videotape collections….