PERVERSION FOR PROFIT

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BIZARRE!!! 'PERVERSION FOR PROFIT' & 'EXPERIMENTS IN THE REVIVAL OF ORGANISMS' DVD

Morality, Saving & Loan Scandal Style & "It's Alive!", Russian Dead
Dog Style - Blurs In The Line Between Fact & Fiction Packed Into 1
Region Code Free International DVD!

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PERVERSION FOR PROFIT (1964-1965), hosted by "outstanding news
reporter" George Putnam, is ostensibly a production of "Citizens for
Decent Literature", but it was actually produced by Charles H.
Keating, Jr., the man implicated in the Savings & Loan scandal of the
1980s and patron of the CDL. Its message is presented as simple and
clear - the purveying of pornography is evil, the commies are behind
it & communities must organize into activist groups to combat it. In
reality, however, its message is complicated and murky; and the vague
similarity between Putnam & Criswell does nothing to lend it
credibility. Classic presentation cards illustrating the CDL's case
vie with vintage ads, pictures & covers in a battle to arrest the
viewer's attention in a manner not intended by the film's producers.
Magazines are, of course, the target of choice, and they're dissected
into categories: Girlie, Nudist, Physique, Fetish & Adventure. Books
are not immune, however, as Pocket Book Novels are taken to task as
well. By film's end, a simulated judge's ruling against pornography
is sanctimoniously pronounced - if only the disturbing image of Uncle
Sam kneeling afterwards could have been ruled against as well.
(30:5

EXPERIMENTS IN THE REVIVAL OF ORGANISMS (1940). One might say
"you can't make stuff like this up", but apparently, you can - or rather,
Mary Shelley can - or could - or did. So did the Soviets, or didn't -
or did - you'll have to make up your mind after seeing this film!
What is certain is that this documentary was produced to prove that
the Soviets had mastered the art of reanimation of the dead as the
result of years of repeated euthanizations & resuscitations of
several generation's worth of canine test subjects. Shown in the
United States through the courtesies of "The National Council of
American-Soviet Friendship" and "The American-Soviet Medical Society
in New York", its purposes in being released in America may well be
as much of a mystery as that of the authenticity of the claims of the
film. After presenting what is claimed to be the heart and lungs of a
dog kept alive and pumping outside the animal's body, the film
purports to show a detached dog's head kept alive by artificial means
and able to react to external stimuli. Morever, it documents the
reanimation of the dead using the procedure that Dr. S. S.
Bryukhonenko's Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy in
Voronezh was supposed to have specialized in. (19:32)