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Past Masters of the Nude

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Book cover for Past Masters of the Nude.

Past Masters of the Nude is the latest release from Wolfbait. The book is a little bit different from our other publications. It is an illustrated bibliography of nude photography books published in England from 1896 to 1960. 

It documents every hardback book of nude photographs published in England during the first half of the 20th century from such photographers as Walter Bird, John Everard, Andre de Dienes, George Harrison Marks, Roye, Jean Straker, Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory. Full bibliographical details are given for each title, together with a description of its imagery and contents — a must-have resource for bibliophiles and nude photography collectors.

Throughout the period covered, the publication of nude photographs was a hazardous business. Public prudery and the law of obscenity made life difficult for both photographers and publishers.

In a scholarly introduction and postscript, together with the bibliographical entries themselves, author Jay W. King provides a fascinating account of the profound changes in cultural and legal attitudes towards nudity and sexuality which occurred in England in the first 60 years of the 20th century.

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Nude by Douglas Webb

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Example of nude byDouglas Webb

Douglas Webb, is well known for his stills photography within the film and TV business. His career, however, was far more varied than most people released. He would occasionally turn his hand towards product photography and even wedding photography. I have half a dozen nudes by him, among which I found the above photo. What I like about the pose is that it is full of attitude and oozes confidence — in that sense, it is quite modern. Unfortunately, I don’t know who the model is or when it was taken. I find the pose is quite striking.

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Colin Gordon: Wolfbait Illustrator

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Naturist sport of miniten

I thought I would write a little bit about Colin Gordon. Colin does the illustrations that appear in our books. He works in the games industry as a character designer and animator, but also works freelance, creating posters, logo design, illustration, and album covers. His bold, simplified and stylish designs are influenced by early twentieth-century European posters artists such as Begarstaffs, Ludwig Hohlwein, Adolfo Hohenstein and René Gruau as well as Hollywood B-movies posters and gig posters. Over the years Colin Gordon has done a lot of work for the resurgent Burlesque scene. Here are some samples of his work, which have appeared in our publications. To see more of his art, visit his website at colingordon.net or follow him on Instagram.

Two black and white illustrations of topless wresting women by Colin Gordon.
A selection of black and white illustrations by Colin Gordon of 3 ladies in a nudist camp.

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Full Frontal – Mina Felgate

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Another delightful picture of Mina Felgate, a regular model of Stephen Glass, who frequently appeared in Health and Efficiency. See my earlier post on Mina for further details about her.  

Nude picture of Mina Felgate

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Naked as Nature Intended — the Music

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The story of the making of Naked as Nature Intended and its subsequent history has been rigorously chronicled by our illustrious editor, thanks to his enthusiasm for the subject and his priceless Pamela Green archives (which should be saved for the nation). However, as a film historian, the one area of knowledge missing from our story is information on the musical score of this movie — a state of affairs I have spent quite a few years attempting to rectify. 

All we have to go on is the infuriatingly unhelpful opening title credit “Music by Boosey & Hawkes and C.Brull” which means — library music! For the uninitiated, that’s music supplied by publishers, who in addition to marketing songs and sheet music and promoting records, also have a library of specially commissioned pieces of music to suit all possible moods, for the background scores of films and other media, that might not want, or need, an (expensive) composer. 

The business of library music has remained one of the great underground secrets of the film industry since the 1930s, and only the trade was supposed to know about it, (I personally have spent more than half my lifetime, just trying to track down catalogues, let alone the discs!) Earliest on the scene were DeWolfe publishers who were supplying ‘mood music’ in sheet music form to silent cinemas in the 1920s, But on record, one of the earliest pioneers were Boosey and Hawkes, putting out 78s from around 1937/8 onwards.

Other publishers followed suit, the big players like Chappell and Francis Day & Hunter dominating the business in the 1940s  and a slew of smaller labels popping up in the post-war years. Amongst them Charles Brull — a spinoff of Karl Brull the Austrian publishers, who apparently retrenched to London in the ’50s. Brull, or Harmonic as their label was usually known, employed any number of the great light music composers of the period including Mischa Spoliansky, Hans May, Wilfred Burns, Allan Gray and many others, from popular songwriters to major film composers.  Boosey and Hawkes were equally creative with their choices of composers but struck gold with one, in particular, the great Trevor Duncan, best remembered today for his theme to TVs Doctor Finlay’s Casebook (itself a Boosey library piece) — and at one point in the early 1950s,  the composer of more than a quarter of all Boosey’s musical output. 

What led Harrison Marks to choose a variety of Boosey and Brull music for aked as Nature Intended we shall probably never know. Frequently producers leave it entirely to their sound editor to underlay a music track, while others spend weeks and months rigorously personally spot-checking every second of the score (unlikely in a low budget nudie like this, which would have had to be in cinemas within weeks to start recouping costs) 

So why has information on this score remained so elusive after nearly 60 years? Quite simple really  — producers frequently do deals with publishing houses for a one-off all-in blanket payment for their services. Yes, all films (supposedly) produce a cue-sheet, listing all the music, which is then supplied to the Performing Right Society so payments can be made for performances of the score. In many cases this is conveniently mislaid or, as in the case of Deep-Throat or Plan 9 from Outer Space, never lodged at all. The music publishers in those days would probably have been well satisfied with a payment of this nature (probably around £250 or so) and a screen credit, knowing full well that further royalties would never materialise anyway.

Whether the Performing Right Society does indeed have a cue-sheet for Naked as Nature Intended is a topic of academic speculation. Despite taking tens of millions of pounds in musical royalties, from which they cream off a very substantial ‘administrative’ percentage, and despite holding priceless information about film & TV music from the last 90 years, they have always refused point-blank to supply any information to legitimate researchers and scholars — and I should know, I’ve been pestering them for the last 40 years!

So, what to do? The only answer is to identify the score piece by piece, by ear — yep, and that’s what I’ve been doing since I acquired my first copy of Naked as Nature Intended on a bootleg VHS many years ago.  

So here now is the list of known compositions (disc numbers can be supplied): 

• Candid Snap (Frank Chacksfield) / In Orbit (Edward White)   

• Smooth Sequence (Trevor Duncan) / Folk Tune (Duncan) [Pam’s dance]

• Fowl Play (Steven Simmons) / Panoramic Splendour (Duncan) / Meadow Mist (Duncan) 

Not much to show really – there are approximately 14 pieces of music in the score (some played several times) So it looks like we’re about halfway to completion. 

If anyone reading this has access to the top-secret PRS files and would care to smuggle out the documents, I would be more than pleased to finish off this lifetime’s search once and for all, and get on with more healthy pursuits, like figuring out the scores of My Bare Lady and Can You keep it up for a Week —  dear Lord!!!

Alexander Gleason (British Film Music Encyclopaedia)

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Cover Girl – Cocktail #11

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Pamela Green appeared at least eight times on the cover of the Swedish men’s magazine Cocktail. The A4 magazine printed on newsprint was a mixture of short stories, cartoons and pin-ups with a colour centrefold. Here’s issue eleven featuring Pamela Green “dressed” as Rita Landre. For issue 5 see my earlier post.

Cocktail, featuring Pamela Green on the cover as Rita Landre, 1966.

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Making friends

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On this sunny spring day a befitting photo of a Pamela Green for you to savour. You guessed it, Stephen Glass took the photo. It’s from the early 1950s. The scan is from the original black and white negative. Does anyone know who the naked pretty lady on the right is?

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Stephen Glass Interview

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STEPHEN GLASS, like his brother Zoltán, was born and educated in Hungary. After three years of intensive study in commercial art schools in Budapest, he earned his living as a designer, cartoonist, and painter. At the end of the first World War, he left Hungary for Germany, where he worked as Art Editor for the leading evening newspaper in Berlin until Hitler’s rise to power in 1937.

After which he came to England and carved out a name for himself as a freelance photographer. He photographed many famous personalities, including the stars of stage and screen, but found his niche in taking pictures for such publications as The Naturist and Health and Efficiency. Pamela Green posed for him several times at the infamous nudist camp Spielplatz, and at his tiny first-floor studio in Old Church Street, just off the King’s Road in Chelsea, where he often worked from the early morning until the late evening.

Apart from his work, he was extremely interested in the fine arts, as well as being a keen sports enthusiast. He apparently never missed his daily P.T. exercises and attended weight lifting and bodybuilding classes every week. He could also play the cello.

His brother Zoltán, who was also a photographer, was interviewed in numerous magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, but I’ve only ever come across one interview with Stephen, and that was in Health and Efficiency in 1951.

Check out the series of books I have published featuring the work of Stephen Glass such as Nudist Camp Follies.

“How I Take My Naturist Pictures” by Stephen Glass, Health and Efficiency, 1951.

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Nymphs and Naiads

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Please to announce the release of volume six in the Stephen Glass Collection – Nymphs and Naiads. This time around, we venture out into the glorious British countryside to take in the view of beauty unadorned. The book is delightfully illustrated by Colin Gordon and comes with a short introduction exploring the links between the Edwardian cult of Pan, Wicca and the nudist movement. A fascinating depiction of a very British Arcadia that is unashamed and unabashed in its vision of an island idyll.

The book is available online at Amazon and other such places.
Amazon UK
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Check out our online shop to see our other publications.
Collect them all!

Nudist images from the book Nymphs and Naiads

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Vampire starring Wendy Luton

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A few years back, the British Film Institute took a look at sex and cinema. They made available online more than a dozen examples of British erotica dating from 1896 to the early years of this century. They range from a Victorian lady’s frilly petticoat to a fuzzy, brief shot of a nude woman cavorting at the seaside, to a naked interview with Fiona Richmond.

Included in the collection is a couple of Kamera Cine films by Harrison Marks. In Vampire (1964), in addition to writing and directing, Marks took the starring role as Count Dracula III — an eye-rollingly hammy Count emerges from his plywood-lidded tomb to chase a naked Wendy Luton around his cardboard-walled castle. What’s not to like? I covered his other film Xcitement! in a previous post. You can watch them both for free on the BFI website.

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Vera Novak

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Here’s a picture of George Harrison Marks directing Vera Novak on the beach. 1963 was a big year for Vera Novak who made her first appearance for George that summer in Kamera no. 54. She then had a significant splash at the seaside in no. 55 and was further exposed in no. 56 before taking the cover of no. 57. Her Solo appearance came in issue no. 34, also 1963. In 1964 she was back in Kamera no.60, as well as no.70 in 1965 and no.72 in 1966. She made her final appearance in 1967 in no.85. Certainly a better than average longevity for an Harrison Marks model.

She also managed two glamour movies for George; Nude in the Sun, filmed in 1963 in Cornwall and the charming Country Cousin. She was also in the book She walks in Beauty… (1964) and the Harrison Marks feature film The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1965).

Vera Novak was born in Yugoslavia-near the earthquake town of Skopje [now Macedonia]. But she grew up in a camp for displaced persons at Salerno in Italy. Her father was the owner of a small shop which was taken over by the Communists after the war. Being critical of the Tito regime, he fled to Greece in 1950 — never to be heard of officially again, though Vera at one point felt certain he died in a revolution in Brazil. His departure left Vera and her mother in very difficult circumstances, and in desperation, they moved northwards to Rijeka [now in Crotia] where her mother felt she could earn enough to keep them alive by selling on the black market.

As the wife and daughter of someone who had fled the country’s government, they were under constant surveillance. Apparently, their first attempt to escape to Italy resulted in their capture and 14 days in jail. Later they were more fortunate. Having passed Trieste, they were horrified when stopped by police on what they thought was still Yugoslav soil. But they had crossed the frontier, and the police were Italian. They ended up in a Displaced Person’s camp at Salerno which, as Vera once commented, was “a part of my life I would like to forget.”

Finally, Vera and her mother were allowed to leave the camp and come to England, where her mother-presuming her first husband to be dead-married and settled down in Bournemouth. Vera was sixteen when she came to England. Her looks and figure naturally brought in offers for modelling and film work. She was appeared in The Beauty Jungle, a 1964 film about beauty contests. The film was directed by Val Guest who was a close friend of Pamela Green. Vera often hired out her flat in Bayswater to photographers who wanted a change of location.

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9 Ages of Nakedness

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I can’t believe that in all the years I’ve been running this blog this is the first post I’ve written on the feature film The Nine Ages of Nakedness. A film that the director George Harrison Marks boasted featured “150 girls in the all-together”.

It was originally entitled The Seven Ages of Nakedness, a title inspired by John Gielgud’s one-man show The Seven Ages of Man, but to increase the film’s running time to a reasonable length two more ages had to be added. Even with the two extra ages, the whole film seems a bit stretched.

In the film, George Harrison Marks plays a rather camp glamour photographer whose encounters with women are bedevilled by mishaps. This leads him to seek help from an “Indian” psycho-analyst with a comedy accent on Harley Street. While on the couch, he declares his belief that the male members of his family are cursed and recounts nine tales of family misfortune.

The Nine Ages of Nakedness

THE STONE AGE. ‘Harry Stone Marks’, fresh from carving Stonehenge is employed to draw a cavewoman housewife (June Palmer), only to end up pelted with rocks when her husband takes a fancy to Marks’ blonde secretary. I love the stone age record player in this scene — very Flintstones.

THE EGYPTIAN AGE. The Jewish slave ‘Harrison Hubergritz’ is commissioned to design a burial chamber for the Pharaoh. He employs six beautiful girls as models, but as the project will take him a lifetime to complete, he replaces them as time lessens their loveliness. After fifty years a misplaced hammer blow causes the whole edifice to collapse.

THE CHINESE AGE. In an oriental offshoot of the Marks family, Ha-Ri-Son, a wealthy and elderly Mandarin gentleman who worships his lovely young wife, becomes enraged when he finds her in the arms of his gardener. Seeing them passionately embracing on a bridge he uses his mystical powers to turn the whole garden including the lovers, into blue and white porcelain — thus was born the legend of the willow pattern.

THE GRECIAN AGE. The ageing Professor Marc, sculptor, wanders through a tree-lined avenue of stone plinths and on all except one stands a lovely nude woman. As he gazes at the empty plinth, the professor recalls the captivating model with whom he once fell in love with.

THE CAVALIER AGE. Sir Harrison Chandelier is hired by Sir Rupert to paint a nude portrait of Her Ladyship. Totally focussed on his work he fails to notice the arrival of The Roundheads. Cromwell’s men slash the canvas to ribbons, and Sir Harrison is committed to the stocks and pelted with refuse, and subjected to the insults of the mob. This is a semi-remake of one of Marks earlier 8mm glamour films called The Bare Truth.

THE OLD TIME MUSIC HALL AGE. In Victorian England, music hall impresario ‘The Great Marko’, is down on his luck. A chance meeting with a Cockney cleaning lady — who he imagines topless — provides Marko with the idea of presenting a show based around ‘Living Statues’. This leads him to be prosecuted, but the court merely imposes a small fine as the judge is appreciative of the art form.

THE OLD DARK HOUSE. This scene was missing from the cut of the film I have on DVD. All I know about it is that it features “Professor Frankenstein Harrison Marks”.

THE POETIC AGE. Byron Marks waxes lyrically about women but fails to get any credit for his poetry.

THE TOPLESS COMPUTER AGE. It is approaching the year 3000, and a group of gorgeous topless beauties attend a maze of computers. Their leader (Monique Devereaux), escorting visitors from another planet, shows them the only male they keep in captivity to populate the sphere. Caveman like, he gnaws a bone, whilst on a wall is kept the score of his hundreds of conquests. This is the only story in which Marks does not make a cameo appearance.

June Palmer in The Stone Age from The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969).

Not long after he completed the film, Marks declared bankruptcy and sold all rights to it. Who the current rights owner are unknown but I have heard a rumour that several cans of film labelled The Nine Ages of Nakedness lurk in the basement of the BFI collecting dust. As I said, the version I have on DVD omits the “Old Dark House” story, even though it lists it on the back cover copy. In addition, it seems footage from the “Computer Age” sequence was also deleted, including the punch line. Maybe one day a decent cut of the film will emerge.

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A very British Arcadia

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Due, in part, to the censorship laws of the 1950s, photographers often sought to cloak their work in respectability, using Classical allusions in an attempt to validate their “art studies”. There is a certain naive charm to captioning a photograph of a lady in a state of undress Nymph in a Sunlit Glade or Nymph Surprised, and we shouldn’t underestimate the hunger for art from the boys behind the bike shed or the homesick squaddie in barracks. Be that as it may, there’s also something much deeper at play.

The Cult of Pan

At the end of the 19th century, several groups embraced a broad philosophy whose central belief was that nudity is a natural state that should be widely adopted for the betterment of society. This philosophy was associated with an idealisation of ancient Greek mythology and a reimagining of Arcadia, the unspoiled wilderness homeland of the god Pan and assorted non-human creatures. Along with Pan, female divinities called nymphs, who presided over natural features such as trees, mountains and water, became all the rage.

Photo by Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory.

No doubt this was part of the wider zeitgeist; after all, Arcadia, along with Pan, was a common subject in the work of late Victorian and Edwardian painters and authors. In literature, Pan can be found in poetry, novels and even children’s books. Pan, a phallic deity widely associated with lustful and rampant sexuality, was reinvented as a benevolent, genial god of woodland and meadow — a symbol of a lost pastoral world. He appears in this benign and gentler form in Kenneth Graham’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows, in the somewhat surprising chapter called “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, from which Pink Floyd’s debut studio album takes its name.

Was this Edwardian cult of Pan a response to the industrialisation and destruction of nature and the old rural ways at the end of the 19th century? A destruction which broke the last vestiges of meaningful connection between the vast majority of urbanised Britons and the English countryside. Who knows, but from around 1890 the cult of Pan grew deep roots within the popular consciousness of the British public.

Even though the age of Pisces was making way for the Age of Aquarius, the cult of Pan came to an abrupt end with the First World War. In the novel Blessing of Pan (1927) by Lord Dunsany, the nuanced treatment of the themes of paganism, nature worship, and anti-industrialisation seem like an elegy.

Wicca and the English Gymnosophical Society

But the pagan gods were just reinventing themselves for the new age. The English Gymnosophical Society was formed in 1922 and became the New Gymnosophy Society in 1926 — the word gymnosophy comes from the Greek words naked and wisdom. The society helped fund the purchase of land at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire for what was to become Britain’s first nudist club site; it was named Fouracres. After the Second World War, it evolved into the Fiveacres Country Club and with the involvement of Gerald Gardner, “the father of witchcraft”, became a front for Wiccans, as witchcraft was illegal in England until 1951.

In 1933 Margaret Murray wrote of Pan in her book The God of the Witches, in which she theorised that Pan was one form of the ancient Horned God who was worshipped by the Witch Cult throughout Europe.

So it’s clear that the Edwardian cult of Pan, Wicca, neopaganism, and the nudist movement have intertwined roots. And therefore a picture of a naked young lady standing in a clearing in the woods captioned Nymph in a Sunlit Glade is not just a cynical ploy for approval or ironic kitsch, but part of a long history of folkloric and counter-culture visions of a very British Arcadia.

Illustration by Colin Gordon.

The above article is an extract from the book Nymphs and Naiads

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Sheplegh Court – Naturist Hotel

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Connoisseurs concerned with the entertainments of this blog, such as yourself, would no doubt have come across mention of Sheplegh Court, for it was a popular location for photographers of the nude. But did you know why? A gem of architecture in as wonderful a setting as Nature could devise, Sheplegh Court was a residential country club for naturists.

The delightful Lee Sothern in the grounds of Sheplegh Court. Taken in the early 60s. Glass plate negative.

There are records of a property occupying the site since 326AD.  The Ridgeway family built the present house in 1837, and in 1944 it became the headquarters of General Eisenhower during rehearsals in Start Bay for the D-day landings. It was the venue for a famous planning meeting between Eisenhower, Churchill, De Gaulle and Montgomery. Not long after the war in 1946, it opened to the public as Britain’s first naturist hotel.

Naturism was mandatory in the grounds outdoors. Most of the internal staff, however, wore clothes. They were mainly village folk from nearby Blackawton. It regrettably closed its doors in 1987. The house and outbuildings have now been converted to provide approximately 15 flats within the seclusion of 30 acres of garden, woods and parkland.

I plan to do some more research and will hopefully post a longer article about the venue in the future. If anyone has some info or pictures, please get in touch.

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Pamela Green – an early Portrait

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An early portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. The above image was scanned from a contact sheet as I didn’t have the negative. It needed a fair bit of clean up, but it came out rather well. The white lines are Stephen’s original mark-up. Pamela Green started modelling for photographers when she was just 17 in 1946. She was a life model at art school before that. This photo was taken before she started working with George Harrison Marks in the early 1950s.

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Viva Espana!

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Olé! Another early nude portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. This time with a Spanish flavour. There is something about the overall exotic appeal of Mediterranean women — maybe more so now since Brexit.

An early nude portrait of Pamela Green by the photographer Stephen Glass. This time with a Spanish flavour.

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Top 5 Nudist Films

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To celebrate our forthcoming release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of the Nudist Film here is our list of the top five British nudist films. The book is currently available to pre-order from Amazon.

Travelling Light (1959)

Travelling Light (1959) lobby card

Edward Craven Walker, the inventor of the lava lamp, was a keen naturist. He made three films celebrating the nudist lifestyle. Travelling Light, his first, was by far the best. Sunbathing in the altogether at Studland Bay, Elizabeth Walker gets invited by some naturist to join them on holiday to Corsica. The film is best remembered for its underwater sequences.


The Nudist Story (1960)

a.k.a. For Members Only aka Pussycat Paradise.
British filmmakers seemed to do a better job at nudist scripts, plot, camera work, and sound than their American counterparts. The Nudist Story is a surprisingly good tale and is decently acted. It is often described as the Citizen Kane of nudist movies. A young female tycoon considers closing her recently deceased grandfather’s nudist camp. Will the delights of nudity win her over?


Nudes of the World (1961)

Contestants from a beauty contest unable to top up their tans, as all the local sun clubs are fully booked, lease the grounds of a stately home, while the Lord is away on holiday. Appalled and horrified, the locals from the village get out their pitchforks. Blue Peter host, Valerie Singleton, provides the voiceover.


Naked As Nature Intended (1961)

There are five outstanding reasons to see this film: Petrina Forsyth, Pamela Green, Angela Jones, Bridget Leonard, and Jackie Salt. If any nudist film ever won the hearts of a nation, it’s this one. It takes forever for the wandering young lasses to finally get down to removing their clothes as nature intended, but the wait is worth an empire.


My Bare Lady (1963)

America tourist, Tina, crashes her bike into a pond, and, local nudist and Korean war veteran, Patrick, invites her to a local holiday camp to recover, where naturist bliss and true love await her — filmed in the scenic surroundings of the North Kent Sun Club, in exotic Orpington.


Some of the above films are available from the fabulous folks over at Something Weird.

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Nudist Cult in Springtime

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America artist, Georgia Warren putting the finishing touches to her mural, Nudist Cult in Springtime, which was exhibited at the 1935 World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium. I wonder what happened to it. Does anyone know?

Georgia Warren was born January 17 1899, in Davenport, Nebraska. She contributed black & white interior illustrations to Physical Culture Magazine and painted covers for such magazines as True Romance and All-Story Love Tales. She died in 1983.

Georgia Warren painting Nudist Cult in Springtime for the 1935 World’s Fair in Brussels.

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Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film

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I’m a bit late posting about this, but life has been busy the last few weeks. Anyway, I proud to announce the updated release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film by Mark Storey. The book was originally released in 2003 but has long been out of print. We’ve updated the text, completely re-typeset it and designed a new cover. We have included more pictures as well. The book now sits at 344 pages, and I must admit it has come out rather well. 

And yes, that is Pamela Green on the cover as photographed by Douglas Webb for the film poster of Naked As Nature Intended.

The book covers long-forgotten films such as Elysia: Valley of the NudeThe Monster of Camp Sunshine, and Take Off Your Clothes and Live!, as well such classics as The Nudist Story and Travelling Light.

The author, Mark Storey, is on the editorial staff of the America magazine Nude & Natural. He has a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle and teaches philosophy at Bellevue College, in Bellevue, Washington. 

You can order your copy today from Amazon

Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film
ISBN-13 : 978-1916215139
Price: £16.99 / $ 21.99

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Modern Sunbathing

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Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene, February 1956.

It’s nice to see Pamela Green gracing the cover of an American magazine for once. Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene, from what I can tell, ran from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, by which time it had become Modern Sunbathing Quarterly.

It claims to be the American edition of Health Efficiency, and the first few issues do have an international bent. Pamela Green appeared on the cover in February 1956. It’s an early photo of Pam when she had short hair. It was taken by George Harrison Marks. Other cover stars included Bettie Page, Diane Webber and Jayne Mansfield.

“A Cultural, Sociological and Scientific Publication” is the rather pompous strapline on the title page. Articles include A Peek Inside a French Nudist Camp, People Are Sure Curious…, and The Sun Packs a Wallop.

It’s Pam birthday today. She would have been 92.

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