Movie Ad of the Week: BLACK ON WHITE (1969) a.k.a. THE ARTFUL PENETRATION and BARBARA THE YES GIRL (1970)

Released by Audubon Films with a self-applied X rating, Tinto Brass' pop art stunner NEROSUBIANCO/BLACK ON WHITE had its U.S. premiere in New York City on October 10, 1969. Within a few months the title was changed to THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA, shortened to THE ARTFUL PENETRATION for newspaper advertising.

Sporting the new title and a different advertising campaign, it returned to New York on April 22, 1970 -- with the "y" in psychological missing on the opening day ad.

A week later (May 1, 1970) the film appeared in Chicago as BARBARA THE YES GIRL with a completely different ad campaign.

Movie Ad of the Week: "Radley Metzger's Erotic Film Festival" (1972)

This triple bill of European erotica from Radley Metzger's Audubon Films arrived at 13 theaters in the New York area on October 20, 1972. THERESE AND ISABELLE (1968) and CARMEN, BABY (1967) -- filmed in France and Germany, respectively -- were produced and directed by The Bronx-born Metzger, while THE LIBERTINE (1968), starring Catherine Spaak and Jean-Louis Trintignant, was made in Italy by director Pasquale Festa Campanile and licensed for U.S. distribution by Metzger. Head over to our other blog, The Paperback Film Projector, where you'll find all three represented in a gallery of Radley Metzger paperback covers!

Drive-In Manager's 2nd Obscenity Arrest

RICHLAND, Wash. -- Richland Drive-In manager William Rabe has been arrested for the second time in less than two years on a charge of showing an obscene film.

City Attorney Tim Heye, who accompanied police during the arrest and confiscation of a print of Audubon's "Carmen Baby," reported that the film, which "glorifies sex in its most perverted forms," was attended mostly by apparent minors. He further characterized the film as "Filth...obscene under every test of the Supreme Court of obscenities," and in addition unfit for "display on a huge outdoor billboard for all of the world to see."

(Motion Picture Daily, 9/12/1968, p.4)