The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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To give the film some censor appeasing credibility Marks shot this section of the film in a genuine nudist camp, Spielplatz Sun Club owned by a bearded old codger named Charles Macaskie. Marks was also the photographic consultant for the film Peeping Tom, which featured Green in a cameo role. Kine Weekly wrote: "Since he is producer, director, part author and star of the film, one can assume that it expresses the personality of Harrison Marks and the commentary, which Harrison Marks also interrupts at intervals, suggests that he is a photographer who can be compared with a composer, even perhaps a poet. Naked as Nature Intended was the brainchild of Tony Tenser and Michael Klinger a pair of canny Jewish businessmen from the East End.

He was an excellent photographer of nudes,” Tony Tenser remarked to John Hamilton in a 1998 interview, “but he also excelled in photographs of cats, that were much more beautiful than some of his nudes”. This begat, a particularly turbulent time in the early seventies when he was made bankrupt (in September 1970), was the subject of an obscenity trial at the Old Bailey (in 1971) and his drinking began to become more heavy. On the quiet it would seem the magazine secretly favoured the pros, given that the magazine’s articles on photography (written by Russell Gay) and further photographic advice dished out in the letters page come across as a subtle way of asking the amateur photographers to try and up their game. She used to crash cars into brick walls at 70 mph until I stopped her” he later remarked “I thought to myself, I‘ve either got to marry her or she‘ll kill herself”.The film gives the impression the crew just filmed whatever attractions they came across as the girls venture around the Minack Open Air Theatre in Porthcurno, Stonehenge, and various seaside towns, with narration that sounds suspiciously like its been quickly transcribed from tourist brochures with a few corny lines from Marks’ music hall days thrown in for good measure “that reminds me of that definition, even a girl who can’t add up can certainly distract”. Whatever the reason for the illusion that they were husband and wife, Marks and Green’s “marriage” quickly became a talking point for the press. An episode of the BBC's Balderdash and Piffle attributed the earliest use of the word "glamour" as a euphemism for nude modelling/photography to Marks' 1958 publicity materials. For some reason pubic hair on women was considered de trop” GHM bemoaned in later years “we had those dreadful, touched up black and white shots of girls looking quite unearthly at the tops of their thighs, as if every girl was covered over with a kind of sexual mist”.

George Harrison Marks (6 August 1926 – 27 June 1997) was an English glamour photographer and director of nudist, and later, pornographic films. Rounding off the Kamera ensemble was one Henry James Guy, described by Amateur Cine World as “a suitably benevolent grey-haired father figure”, who began as Marks’ sales manager before moving up in the ranks to general manager. While Danny Kaye sniped at Marks “you sure must be a stinking lousy photographer” during a second sitting, after Kaye’s cranky demeanor had caused Marks to botch the first. For a valuable and rare set such as this I suggest we use a courier such as DHL , which takes a few days for most destinations worldwide. Based at Marks' Farringdon studio, Maximus was run on a 'film club' basis, meaning that punters would have to sign up for membership before purchasing the films, mirroring the way membership-only sex cinemas were run at the time.Marks proudest achievement as a theatrical photographer was taking pictures of Bela Lugosi during the actor’s British tour as Dracula in 1951. Theirs was, as he described it, “a devastating, traumatic and searing love”, only a few months into the marriage both parties were heading for a nervous breakdown. U.S forces then clandestinely enter East Germany in an attempt to reach the crash but are thwarted by Soviet forces. With Marks on the other hand, the glamour films often feel like his own little fantasy world and lay the groundwork for the “girls and gags” nature of his work. Macaskie and his wife even have bit parts in the film, welcoming Pam and the girls into the nudist camp fold.