Title #GAY-190, written by Dan Gilbert – this is a 2nd edition, published by American Art Enterprises
the cover model looks familiar, maybe late 1980’s??
(below) – originally published 1974; HIS69 Series.
UPDATE: see comments, he’s been ID’d! – has he appeared elsewhere? videopornformance?
Okay, Okay…. so I don’t have a photo of Rod Kasznar kissing Santa…. but I’ve been trying to figure out a way of getting them in during my “publish drafts posts – Xmas posts only exception” phase I am going thru
I was hoping to do a fuller post on photographer Michael Rock, and gay greeting card company ROCKSHOTS – but click that link and it’s broken! Who can forget the “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” card??? I know he used Ron Raz a lot as a model (given the chance, who wouldn’t??!!), and if you click thru you’ll see Santa Ron. Michael Rock’s photos appeared in MANDATE (frequently in 1977, but other years as well), most notably the January 1980 issue (see pic below), including cover; also in at least the January 1983 Honcho, multiple issue of PLAYGUY…. Anyone else remember ROCKSHOTS?
oh wait – the Michael Rock / Rockshots article has been moved to the Archives – yeah!
wish I had a better version of this photo by Roy Blakey; also wish I could narrow down the month this PLAYGUY, Vol 5, No 1 – I am fairly sure it is 1980 – December? January?
Can’t recall why this TCS Studios post got started, and remained in the drafts folder for a couple years. A note “8 minutes previews” was my only clue, so I tracked down the clip, and you see it above highlighting some of the 8-10 films from this Studio. I listed only the ones I think were produced by TCS, and if you look at GEVI you’ll see a handful more distributed by them as well.
Of note, as I hadn’t really followed Mark Reynolds career – “Larry Ginsburg (real name) began in 1974 marking film loops under Brentwood’s Starline brand although there were several Starline films he did not do. An interior designer he had never seen films until just before he decided to do his own. After “creative differences” with Brentwood, he founded the Trade!Mark Studio. He formed TCS studios as a separate company with different “standards.” Here he did one film and then used Steve Scott as director because Scott already had done good sound work on Face to Face and Reynolds had not worked with sound. Cameraman Tom Howard said the Reynolds preferred younger guys who had less experience, making the filming more difficult. He was also said to take much more time filming than others like Steve Scott.”
Curious where GEVI gets this from – I show Face To Face as a Steve Scott film (but yes, I agree Scott is great at sound); and Reynolds only doing one film for TCS? – at least half are credited to him! hmmmmmm OK, i am re-reading; he did one film, then got Steve Scott on board, not necessarily to do all the rest of the films for the studio.
The above clip I think I downloaded just to capture some images for when I sold the VHS tape –
I know I should just send you to last year’s link – Christmas Present…., and do so if you want more info, like the music, but meanwhile, enjoy another holiday clip
AKA Phil Andros