1:16:00
that porn was going to
merge into, kind of,
Hollywood films.
1:16:08
(Annie Sprinkle)
That porn movies
1:16:10
were gonna just get
bigger and bigger budgets
1:16:13
and become more like
feature films
with hardcore sex.
1:16:16
Looked like it was going to
burst itself into something,
into an art form.
1:16:20
That didn't happen.
1:16:21
ln fact,
just the opposite happened.
1:16:23
lnstead, it dwindled in-into
a mediocre commodity.
1:16:30
(Damiano)
With the advent of
the video camera,
1:16:33
it got to be so easy
to--to shoot X-rated video
1:16:37
that ev-everybody could do it.
1:16:39
And then, the only ones
that did it
1:16:41
were the ones that could do it
cheaper and cheaper,
1:16:44
for less and less
and less money.
1:16:50
(Damiano)
They were--
they were nothing,
1:16:53
It was just
one sex scene after another,
1:16:56
And it--it sort of
killed itself,
1:17:02
I couldn't make
that kind of film,
1:17:05
Because there was--
there was no reason to.
1:17:08
It became a--
it became a factory,
1:17:13
It was over,
1:17:15
You didn't need
filmmakers anymore,
1:17:18
[seagulls cawing]
1:17:22
(Hopper)
As the adult industry grew,
1:17:25
it neither needed
the rebel filmmaker
1:17:27
who had pioneered it
1:17:28
nor heeded
the feminist protest
against it,
1:17:31
So finding herself redundant,
1:17:33
Linda Lovelace
moved with her family
to Denver
1:17:36
to try and start a new life,
1:17:39
(Lindsay)
Um, that's Mom at her desk.
1:17:41
Uh, she was the manager
of the mailroom.
1:17:46
She was proud of her new desk.
1:17:48
Um...
1:17:50
They fired her
when they found out about LL.
1:17:52
It happened a lot,
1:17:59
(Lovelace)
You know, I've lost two jobs