Fleshbot recently pointed to Vintage Girly Magazines, a blog which hosts nothing but vintage (apparently mostly from the 40s-60s) pin-ups and striptease videos, where I found a clip from a series called Hollywood Funtime! One particular clip, called “Red-Headed Riot,” features a dancer who looks a lot like Rita Hayworth, who even seems to be mimicking Hayworth’s famous hair flip from Gilda. Of course, in Gilda, Hayworth does a song and dance number at a club, during which she removes her gloves and tosses them to the crowd, and at the end of which she says, “I’m not very good at zippers,” and invites men in the audience to come help her out. This gets as far as two volunteers actually rushing the stage, before Gilda is ushered away. Maybe something like “Red-Headed Riot” is the wish fulfillment extension of that scene––the fantasy of what Gilda/Hayworth would have shown/done of she hadn’t been stopped by the Production Code in the form of a narrative device.

I’ve tried and failed to find more information about Hollywood Funtime, but I wonder: was the series sort of a precursor to the contemporary trend of using Hollywood films as the takeoff point for quasi-narrative porn (ie: Pulp Friction, Lady Scarface)? If any of you vintage porn aficionados have an answer, let us know.

In the meantime, “Red-Headed Riot” (which is not explicit at all, but still probably not safe for work) lives here, and you can compare it to the above fan montage from Gilda. Vintage Girly Magazines also has at least one early short directed by Joe Sarno, Andrew Sarris’ favorite sexploitation auteur of the 60s and 70s.