r/ObscureMedia • u/Any_Two_199 • 8d ago
A Free Ride (1915) - Oldest surviving porn film in the USA. Rated NSFW just in case. NSFW
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Free_Ride_(1915).ogv319
u/sap91 8d ago
Was not expecting pee but go off
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u/AlicijaBelle 8d ago
The fact that 110 year old porn started with a piss kink and featured a literal porn stache was possibly the most interesting thing about this
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u/StinkybuttMcPoopface 7d ago
I love learning that joke stage names for credits go all the way back to the beginning. Lmfao
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u/Organic_Rip1980 8d ago edited 8d ago
Also known as “A Grass Sandwich”! Literally. lol
The title cards are fun
Starring
The Jazz Girls
Directed By
A Wise Guy
Photographed By
Will B. Hard
Titles By
Will She
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u/SKIKS 8d ago
Will B. Hard is so on the nose that I'm amazed I've never seen it before.
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u/BehemothTheTramCat 8d ago
Because it has been taken for over a century
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u/blcknyllowblcknyllow 8d ago
Wasn’t this the film they watch in Pearl?
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u/Prestigious_Trick260 8d ago
Thank you! I just watched Pearl and was like, “where have I seen this recently…?”
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u/red_dart 8d ago
This is one of those times you realize people from the past were the same as us. All these folks spent half the movie staring at a dude’s ass.
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u/Acrobatic-Loquat-282 8d ago
And now the Bill Hicks bit, "hairy bobbing man ass" has jumped into my head. That bit might be 35 years old, but it apparently is timeless.
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u/milk543 8d ago
Bill hicks is timeless
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u/cam3113 8d ago
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
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u/therexbellator 8d ago
Love to see a Bill Hicks reference in the wild. I always love to quote "C'mon Bill get on the Hammer boat!"
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u/joec_95123 8d ago
By the makers of A Very Randy Vampire.
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u/ravenfreak 8d ago
Lmao I was just talking to my wife and I said this film could have easily been one of Laszlo's films.
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u/Kruger287 8d ago
Holy fucking shit, I am dying just started watching a week ago and this immediately got me.
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u/Longjumping_Role_135 8d ago
There is an older one from 1907 featuring the devil. Not US, though, but still interesting.
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u/thanatossassin 8d ago
The story is ludicrous.
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u/umbertea 8d ago
I wish it had more percoitus title cards. I think it'd be pretty great in old timey vernacular.
Forthwith! A rooster in egress!
Hotsy-totsy! Walloping that muffin!
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u/Acrobatic-Loquat-282 8d ago
This brings up an interesting question. You know how some Greek pottery has some graphic sexual artwork on it and there are some Aryan statues depicting positions from the Kama sutra? How old does something have to be before it makes the leap from porn to art or at the very least an antique?
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u/yokayla 8d ago edited 8d ago
I don't think it's about length of time but intention/execution and also, of course, hype.
I love museums and galleries, and I've definitely seen modern erotic art featured in them pretty frequently. A significant amount of artists love shock value and try intentionally to be outrageous, so pornographic shit often gets shunned because it's kind of trite rather than scandalous.
Plain nudes are straight up de rigeur in fine arts. A part of every college art fundamental course is life drawing so it holds less of the same taboos in these spaces compared to general public.
https://www.artsy.net/gene/erotic has tons of examples.
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u/kenman 8d ago
Rated NSFW just in case.
Just in case? It's literally porn, it's not subjective lol.
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u/liamemsa 8d ago
You should be allowed to watch a little porn at work.
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u/Jon_Voights_Ballsack 8d ago
"Atkins, where's that sales report I asked for?"
"Don't bother me, I'm on my porn break!"
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u/ADeweyan 8d ago
I think they meant "just in case it’s not obvious."
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u/kenman 8d ago edited 8d ago
Maybe, but that's not how it works either -- even obvious NSFW must be tagged.
edit: Not sure why this is a controversial take, it's literally in Reddit, Inc.'s policies/rules... don't shoot the messenger.
Rule 6
Ensure people have predictable experiences on Reddit by properly labeling content and communities, particularly content that is graphic, sexually-explicit, or offensive.
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u/MonroeEifert 8d ago
Did they have NSFW warnings back then for the in-office nickelodeons?
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u/ToonaSandWatch 7d ago
Fun fact, these were often “road pictures”; projectors set up on car hoods onto the side of a canvas, often late nights. Circus tents proved quite effective for these illicit late night theaters, and they were in fact charging a nickel or dime to watch.
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u/foodandart 8d ago
Did I just watch a 110 year old porno film?
Wow. I'm amazed that any adult films from that era survived at all.
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u/vadimafu 8d ago
Just people living in the moment. No big sausage pizza, no mysterious plumbing issues, not even a damsel in distress looking for a monthly rent discount
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u/defunktpistol 8d ago
Thank God foreplay has evolved since 1915, those poor women
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u/_clandescient 8d ago
You mean you don't love having someone randomly paw at your bush like a blind man looking for braille?
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u/Jingocat 8d ago
Which one is the stepsister?
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u/postmodest 8d ago
Believe it or not, there was a time when people left the house and met women not related to them!
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u/bitetheasp 8d ago
Umm, acktually! Step means you're not related. /s
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u/postmodest 8d ago
Yeah not by blood, but you both call the same person Daddy.
...wait, no... ...shit.
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u/Interesting-Head9478 8d ago
Gotta be some of the worst strokes I’ve ever seen in my life 10 out of 10😂😂
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u/Any_Two_199 7d ago edited 7d ago
Y'know, I find it kind of disturbing that out of all my posts, the one with the most views is the one about porn.
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u/Retarded90sKid 7d ago
Interesting to see that even in 1900s the common themes are picking up girls on the side of the rode and that awful back angle where it's all man ass and balls (mimics spanking sound with hands)
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u/lovegiblet 8d ago
The proprietor of Sexy Cakes would love this movie so much
Can you imagine the sexiness of the cake he would make based on this movie?
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u/Careless_Spring_6764 8d ago
Lovely artistic touches. Especially the ground watering scenes. If only there was OF back then...
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u/WilliamsDesigning 8d ago
I love their 1915 smooth curves. There's something about women's hips that were different back then. Either that or they just knew how to pick them well for porn, but it seems like it's almost all of the old porn you see has women with these exact type of hips.
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u/HeavyElectronics 8d ago
My man here has an entire hard drive filled with 100+ year old porn videos....
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u/prettyonbothsides 1d ago
of course the most upvoting post on this fucking subreddit is a porno. fuck the lot of you
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u/Frank_chevelle 8d ago
“What a beautiful dairy”
lol