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• Dracula Stag Films 7/15/2009 7:24:42 PM
  
  Not a stag, but there's a vignette in Howard Ziehm's Star Virgin shot as a silent-movie spoof. Black & white, about 12 minutes, and pretty funny. Somebody well worth contacting is Blue Vanities. Howie Klein (a former Caballero owner) bought it a couple years ago and was partners with Wesley Emerson, who at last report was cataloging 1000's of old reels they acquired. The old Blue Vanities owner released a couple loops with Dracula or vampire in the titles, but one of the new guys may know of something else in the library that's not on their current DVD's.

• American XXXStacy TV 2/7/2007 10:44:23 PM
  
  It did operate evenings and overnight from the mid 80's on satellite - the old backyard big-dish variety. Each night they showed a few hours of unscrambled but edited and fairly explicit soft-x previews of xxx features and ads, then switched to scrambling and showed unedited features overnight. The in-the-clear edited porn portion was indeed controversial. It was shut down after a family in I believe Alabama or thereabouts reported to the authorities that their underage child viewed the programming; the uplinker and satellite operator were contacted and threatened with legal action (a Sprint or Western Union satellite was used at the time, IIRC) and the plug was pulled. They resurfaced later under a similar name on a Canadian satellite at...