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in--in my head driving over

the 59th Street Bridge.

That weekend,

I wrote the script

and we--we were ready

to do it.

And I spoke to

my production manager,

Ronnie Wertheim.

The phone rang.

It was Gerry. All excited.

And I told him to bring

all our cast and crew

down to Florida.

We're going to make the film.

(Wertheim)

I just called, uh,

Harry Reems.

He came as

a production assistant.

He wasn't even supposed

to be in the film.

(Reems)

When we got to Florida,

we all checked into

this, uh, motel,

I think it was called

The Voyager.

(Wertheim)

As we pulled in,

we saw Linda Lovelace

Iying on the lawn with her...

You know what her

pussycat's name was?

Adolf Hitler.

He had a mustache like that.

We came from New York

with the promise of

having locations.

(Camp)

To me, it was nothing.

I thought nothing of it.

I thought it was just

a--a piece of sh*t film.

Probably one of

the worst porno movies

ever made.

He's nuts.

Lenny Camp was nuts.

He was one of

the guys that were lining up

everything for us.

And, uh, we got nothing.

If it wasn't for us,

this guy would look like

a piece of sh*t,

which he really is.

The only thing that saved us,

I said, "Wait a minute,

"we're at The Voyager Motel,

let's go back and shoot

what we were supposed to do

here in the pool. "

From that moment on,

everybody was

location hunting.

One of the locations

that we shot at

down in Florida,

was at this, uh,

home in Coconut Grove

that was owned by a guy

who called himself a count.

He's not a count.

He's a horseshit count.

He is no count,

he's f***ing Sepy Dobronyi.

And God knows

if that's his real name.

When we came,

they had this elaborate,

elaborate, elaborate

wine cellar.

Should we go

to the wine cellar?

(interviewer)

Yes.

# Yeah, Oh, yeah,

Oh, yeah #

# Yeah, Oh, yeah,

Oh, yeah #

# Yeah, Oh, yeah,

Oh, yeah ##

[Sepy speaking]

If it was planned,

it would not have

been as exciting,

'cause we were just rushing

from one place to another.

(Helen)

You all right?

Yeah, I'm fine,

what makes you say that?

You,

the way you're acting.

(Damiano)

In the very beginning,

there were no

porno actors and actresses.

So everybody

had to be taught.

The actors are all sh*t.

Not--not taught

in the sense of taught.

Taught how to be natural.

Sex,

it makes me feel sort of

tingly all over.

And then...

(Helen)

And then what?

Nothing.

I mean, there should be

more to sex

than a lot of little tingles.

There should be

bells ringing,

dams bursting,

bombs going off, something.

Do you want to get off

or do you want

to wreck a city?

Helen, please, be serious.

Gerry knew nothing about it.

He knew nothing about acting,

he knew nothing about, um...

He knew nothing.

He knew nothing.

But as a swinger himself,

he had a feel

for how to get people

in a sexual mood.

# Do you wanna touch me? #

# Do you wanna touch me?

Do you wanna touch me? Yeah ##

The really important thing

was Harry Reems.

I couldn't find

anybody in Florida

that could even come close

to doing the role.

So at one point,

I fired him off the crew,

[chuckling]

and hired him as the lead,

and thank God he was there,

because l--I don't know

of anybody

that could have even

come close to doing

the job that he did,

as--as the wacky doctor.

I want to hear bells.

Bells?

Bombs.

Bombs?

And dams bursting.

The rockets' red glare.

No, he's not an actor,

he knows that.

Bombs bursting

in air.

# Gave proof through the night

that our flag

was still there ##

He--he would get an erection

at the sound

of the camera motor.

That explains a lot.

You know, l--l, uh,

I never had a problem

um, getting an erection.

# Oh, yeah, Oh, yeah,

Oh, yeah ##

(Damiano)

Linda had the hots

for Harry Reems.

And the morning

we were gonna do

the deep throat scene,

she came to me

and she was very upset,

and she says,

"Chuck is--is--is so jealous

of Harry Reems

that I don't think

I can do a good job. "

Chuck was a member

of our crew.

Production manager

sent him to...

Uh, we said

we're running out of film.

So he went to Miami

to buy film

when we shot the scene,

Linda was completely relaxed,

and she did a marvelous job.

Uh, when I saw her do that,

yes, it is kind of amazing.

Kind of amazing.

It really is.

Surprised?

I was flabbergasted.

I had no idea.

[Seby speaking]

(Linda Williams)

This was the moment

that heterosexual film

became interested in blowj*bs.

I mean, it's not that

fellatio didn't exist.

Certainly, you see

fellatio in stag films.

Um, but you don't

get this fellatio

as figured as

the be-all and end-all,

as the absolute pleasure.

(Hefner)

The thing that

you have to remember

about fellatio is,

historically, it had

been considered illegal

and referred to

as the abominable,

detestable crimes

against nature.

Deep throat was not a term

that my girlfriends and l

really knew anything about.

Most of us had never

even heard of oral sex

or how to perform it.

And people

who wouldn't have dreamed

of going near

that sort of matter

in the '40s and '50s,

and certainly in the '30s,

because that was dirty,

that was low sex,

that was dreadful,

began to see it

as an enrichment.

And I'll just mention

that ejaculate,

I've always known,

was good for the complexion.

[chuckling]

It's full of babies,

its--it's full of protein,

it's full of, uh, plasma.

And to rub it

all over your face

and neck and chest,

a lot of women know that

that's a good thing to do,

not for him but for you.

(Hopper)

Gerry returned to New York

to edit his film.

But there was still

one thing he needed.

A mind-blowing

cinematic female orgasm;

proof of the success

of Linda's quest

for sexual satisfaction.

People didn't

understand that women,

uh, could have as much--

feel as much pleasure

as men did.

Somehow, nobody ever

acknowledged

there was such a thing

as an orgasm for a woman.

That was all male stuff.

(Williams)

It is harder to show

female pleasure.

It's harder to show

female pleasure,

and to believe

that it's actually happening.

That's why I wanted

to show it.

(Damiano)

I went to the film archives

in--in Washington

and got footage of a rocket

and then did

subliminal cutting

with--with the rocket

and--and Linda,

back and forth.

[rumbling]

(Jong)

This is a male fantasy

that says;

"l like to have

my cock sucked.

I really get off on it,

therefore she must, too."

I think that was

a hell of a shot.

[fireworks exploding]

Look, men want to believe

that the clitoris

is in a woman's throat.

Because if they believe

that the clitoris

is in a woman's throat,

then they can believe

that by thrusting

their penis

into a woman's mouth,

she gets as much pleasure

as they do.

Guess what? It's not true.

Uh, you know,

l--I guess, uh,

Deep Throat opened up

a--a, uh, a can of worms.

# Get down, get down,

get down, get down #

When hardcore pornography

is permitted

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