1:15:00
Reagan finishes
with the Meese report,
1:15:02
(reporter)
In its most controversial
finding,
1:15:04
the commission concludes
1:15:05
there is a relationship
between violence
and pornography,
1:15:08
The commission conducted
no scientific studies,
1:15:14
(Hopper)
Finally,
after decades of struggle,
1:15:17
politics triumphed over
pornography,
1:15:19
But the victory was hollow,
1:15:21
The success of Deep Throat
1:15:23
created enormous demand
for hardcore,
1:15:25
that new technology
could now satisfy
1:15:27
and avoid all regulation,
1:15:30
The phenomenal sales of
home videocassette machines
1:15:33
have opened up a new market
for erotic films.
1:15:36
It's a market
that barely existed
a couple of years ago,
1:15:39
But today,
30 to 50 percent of the tapes
1:15:42
available for play
in these machines
1:15:44
are hardcore pornography.
1:15:56
Gerry Damiano,
l think, really thought
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,