The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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Probably at the height of his success here, Marks isn’t afraid to be flash, picking up June Palmer in his Rolls Royce in the opening credits, while at the same modeling a bespectacled, bohemian appearance. Pam looks every bit the blonde goddess who has just emerged from the sea, an effect undiminished by the obviously breezy British weather.

He created the Kane International Videos division and went on to direct (and sometimes also performed in) a number of full-length corporal punishment videos in the '80s and '90s. A lover of animals, in particular felines, in the early stages of his career Marks also had a sideline photographing cats, and provided the photographs for the book Cats’s Company (1960). In an even more macabre vein is “Perchance to Scream” (1967) in which Marks model Jane Paul is transported to a medieval torture chamber where Stuart Samuels plays an evil inquisitor who sentences topless women to be whipped and beheaded by a masked executioner. While the Marks films offered in UK porn magazines throughout the 1970s appear to have been softcore, and their pornographic nature greatly exaggerated by the ads (a familiar trait of David Sullivan), from the early 1970s onwards Marks had begun dabbling in more explicit material.Anyway, here we go again into realms of historical smut with British photographer Harrison Marks and his famed erotic publication Kamera.

What a terrible duo” Marks told Fiesta magazine “in my opinion Longford’

Vivienne had previously made her presence felt on the glamour modeling circuit by appearing on the cover of Spick magazine, a shoot for Parade and a few 8mm glamour films including Russell Gay’s “Form in Abstract”. Marks cats remained a fixture of his studio and can be spotted scurrying about in several of the 8mm glamour films of the period, occasionally even appearing in prominent roles. Endless shots of nude models posed against a variety of garish backgrounds are interspersed with dispiriting scenes in which Harrison Marks judges a beauty contest, works on some glum-looking home movies, or acts out a coy farce about the difficulties involved in photographing a cat. Overseas, the unretouched versions of his pictures were more freely circulated, and would regularly turn up in Danish magazines like ‘Studio’ and ‘Play-Girl’. The Naked World of Harrison Marks disposed of the need to justify nudity by pretending to be nudist propaganda, and as a result the film was initially banned by the censor but swiftly passed by numerous local councils (the BBFC eventually passed the film with cuts in 1968).