:50:00
l didn't.
:50:01
we haven't heard
in 32 years.
:50:03
Thank God.
:50:05
So, how do you know?
:50:06
l don't know
if they're living.
:50:09
They could be dead,
Terry.
:50:15
(Hopper)
In its second year of release,
:50:17
Deep Throat was still
number 1 1 on the charts,
:50:20
It's a dirty movie,
:50:22
Look, try to look at it
as a satire of
contemporary sexual mores
:50:26
with lots of
redeeming social values,
:50:30
(Hopper)
Porn chic was all the rage,
:50:32
Films like Damiano's
The Devil in Miss Jones
:50:34
and Behind the Green Door
:50:36
followed on the heels
of Deep Throat's
unprecedented success,
:50:40
giving Hollywood films
a run for their money,
:50:43
(Peter Bart)
The studios were in shambles
in the early '70s,
:50:47
There's this movie out there,
everyone's going to see it.
:50:49
How does that affect you
and the pictures
you should be making?
:50:53
(Lovelace)
I've been the first one
to go down the path,
:50:55
I'd like to see, uh,
legitimate films
:50:58
and so-called
pornographic films
merge together,
:51:02
I think the two industries
have got to merge together,
:51:04
(Lovelace)
Thank you for making me
:51:06
the first woman president
to go down in history,
:51:10
(Bart)
They were shooting porn films
on the lot at Paramount,
:51:13
This is a little known fact.
:51:15
So Paramount became sort of
confiscated by
the porn industry.
:51:18
(reporter)
Do you see yourself
as a pioneer?
:51:20
(Damiano)
No,
:51:21
If it's left alone,
within a year,
:51:23
sex will just blend itself
into film,
:51:26
lt's inevitable.
:51:27
The only thing
that's uncertain
is--is the time it will take.
:51:31
(Hopper)
But the merger of hardcore
and movies never happened,
:51:34
Instead, the Supreme Court,
packed with
4 Nixon appointees,
:51:38
made a radical change
to the obscenity law
:51:40
in June 1973,
:51:45
Yesterday, the Supreme Court
authorized wider restrictions
:51:48
on the exhibition
and sale of obscenity.
:51:51
(male announcer)
The recent Supreme Court
decision
:51:53
gave local officials the right
to decide for themselves
what is pornographic
:51:57
without having to be guided
by a national standard,