tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post692459825131734543..comments2024-03-27T13:28:50.405-07:00Comments on Alienated in Vancouver: Terry Chikowski: A Moment's Pause Before You Start Blowing Shit UpAllan MacInnishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-82886785402718687362008-12-25T19:41:00.000-08:002008-12-25T19:41:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-90415132952650396312008-10-22T07:43:00.000-07:002008-10-22T07:43:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-51685174118025249792008-10-21T16:12:00.000-07:002008-10-21T16:12:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-15136108799169427842008-10-21T14:55:00.000-07:002008-10-21T14:55:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-59394784879490106742008-10-19T07:11:00.000-07:002008-10-19T07:11:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-6463887077168646732008-10-18T10:01:00.000-07:002008-10-18T10:01:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-83324745769526528572008-10-18T01:00:00.000-07:002008-10-18T01:00:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-19479465951104000572008-10-17T21:29:00.000-07:002008-10-17T21:29:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-17880080233524983862008-10-16T12:24:00.000-07:002008-10-16T12:24:00.000-07:00What I have heard was that Red Hot Video was selli...What I have heard was that Red Hot Video was selling under-the-counter torture-and-rape porn and other deeply degrading and violent stuff (animals? underaged girls? I dunno). People are welcome to correct me at any point - I'm writing this off-the-cuff based on remembered readings and conversations and such - but it's my understanding that this was in the "wild west days," when there was little regulation on (relatively new) video material; the Wimmen's Fire Brigade, an offshoot of Direct Action involving Belmas and Hansen and some other women, torched two or three locations, in one case badly scorching Hansen. Whether Red Hot Video was actually stocking deeply offensive, degrading, or violent stuff is something I have no proof of, but it's certainly possible; it's also possible that the media frenzy over their catalog - because there were all sorts of scandalous stories of what they were stocking; it was what their name and reputation were based on - was exaggerated and a tad hysterical, as these things often are. In any event, if I remember the Fifth Estate episode, the decision to hurry up and regulate video material was partially influenced by the WFB's actions (call it "an extreme public outcry"). Within a few years, the Canadian government had it such that all video material had to pass a censor's approval - in BC, you still have to have the equivalent of an "inspected" stamp on VHS and DVD to say that someone has watched it and decided it was safe - or else it's not technically legal to sell or rent the material. This kept a lot of really distasteful stuff from being widely distributed, but the gov't were also putting black dots on penetrations in porn mags, removing mention of anal sex from porn texts, and censoring shlocky shit documentaries like the FACES OF DEATH series and legit horror movies like Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD (chopped by 10 minutes for Canadian release), which all seems a bit silly in the age of the internet... those were different times...Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-6221864274292749412008-10-16T09:43:00.000-07:002008-10-16T09:43:00.000-07:00I know this is about Litton but what was the deal ...I know this is about Litton but what was the deal with Red Hot Video? they bombed it for renting out hard core pron? Or was there something more severe/under-the-counter going on there?Robert Dayton, Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com