The Paris cinematheque and porn?
I am reading Dave Thompson's Black and White and Blue, a discussion of adult cinema from the 1890s to the 1980s.
As part of this, he deals with the shadowy history of the silent era and 1930s sex film in France. His discussion is largely in terms of beneath the radar, unofficial, research.
But, going further, did Langlois's Cinematheque screen these films, and were Bazin and the future nouvelle vague aware of them, as part of the whole of cinema, especially as porn = realism, sort of?
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Thompson cites Ado Kyrou here, so I suspect the more valid persons must have known, even if they remained reticent to dilvulge...
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