- Summer of Scott Noll (1981) dir Mark Reynolds
- All American Boys (1982) dir Mark Reynolds
- A Summer Fantasy (1982) dir Mark Reynolds
- Doing It (1983) dir Steve Scott
- Gold Rush Boys (1983) dir Steve Scott
- Buster….: The Best Years (1984) dir Mark Reynolds
- Fantasize (1984) dir Mark Reynolds
- One Size Fits All (1984) dir Mark Reynolds
- I Do (1984) dir Steve Scott
- Best Friends (1985) dir Mark Reynolds
Can’t recall why this TCS Studios post got started, and remained in the drafts folder for a couple years. A note “8 minutes previews” was my only clue, so I tracked down the clip, and you see it above highlighting some of the 8-10 films from this Studio. I listed only the ones I think were produced by TCS, and if you look at GEVI you’ll see a handful more distributed by them as well.
Of note, as I hadn’t really followed Mark Reynolds career – “Larry Ginsburg (real name) began in 1974 marking film loops under Brentwood’s Starline brand although there were several Starline films he did not do. An interior designer he had never seen films until just before he decided to do his own. After “creative differences” with Brentwood, he founded the Trade!Mark Studio. He formed TCS studios as a separate company with different “standards.” Here he did one film and then used Steve Scott as director because Scott already had done good sound work on Face to Face and Reynolds had not worked with sound. Cameraman Tom Howard said the Reynolds preferred younger guys who had less experience, making the filming more difficult. He was also said to take much more time filming than others like Steve Scott.”
Curious where GEVI gets this from – I show Face To Face as a Steve Scott film (but yes, I agree Scott is great at sound); and Reynolds only doing one film for TCS? – at least half are credited to him! hmmmmmm OK, i am re-reading; he did one film, then got Steve Scott on board, not necessarily to do all the rest of the films for the studio.
The above clip I think I downloaded just to capture some images for when I sold the VHS tape –
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The cover of Fantasize brings back memories. Back in 1984 my boyfriend and I had a threeway with Mark Rebel. He was such a hot and sweet guy. After doing the videos he became a stripper at gay bars in Southern California and in Canada for a while. I knew Randy Page from The Numbers on Sunset (also nicknamed Rounds West) which was my neighborhood bar as at the time I had a weekend place just up the street.
Ahhhhh, Mark Rebel! was his ass shaved when you met him? Great body, great hairy legs, and I get (kinda) the shaved butthole thing, but if I remember correctly, he was shaved beyond that down to his tanline.
From the waist down he was Chewbacca. In the movies I saw he was shaved.
Chewbacca – chew, indeed
He was always self conscious about his butt. Regardless of how many squats, etc, he would do at the gym he always had a flat ass.
At the risk of leaving another comment here (sorry if I’m doing that too much buddy) that draft folder note may have originated with me. I enjoy the clips of previews that played before and after the films on early VHS tapes, and have asked you about different ones pretty often. A few quick hits about TCS, the clip below has a few more of that studio’s long previews like the ones from your first clip, including Summer of Scott Noll and All American Boys:
https://xhamster.com/videos/vintage-previews-2-xhTXmjJ
The sound in All American Boys is very primitive, you can tell they were in the transition period between silent film loops and full-on talking pictures as there are big sections that have very muffled sound, airplanes taking off covering up what was said, Jacques not having that good a mastery on English etc. Luckily it makes up for it with the sex scenes, esp. the Lee Ryder threeway. They got much better as they became more experienced in how to record the sound while the guys were having sex, or the dialogue in between the sex scenes.
Trying to keep this on the shorter side, re: the music from the preview clip for Doing It, that same song plays over the film’s opening and closing credits and is called Yes I’m Singing by Lee Oskar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE4K-1VXitM
I know at least a few of the songs from some of these TCS fims but not all, of course The Cars – Shake It Up and Olivia Newton John – Physical from the bathroom jackoff scene in Doing It are the most recognizeable.
That first clip is a wowzer!
Terrific profile of TCS. Very informative.
The 2nd clip is definitely my kind of title credits sequence!! But spoilers. Did it run at the nd one beginning or the end? No matter.
Great clips and info. I never knew Trade!Mark was associated with Mark Reynolds. Makes sense though. Trade!Mark – *Mark* Reynolds.
Thanks BJ!
The first clip on this post was one of the three preview clips that was on xhamster, the other two are still there but this is the one that was taken down. I linked to it in my earlier comment and now it redirects to their main page.
I’m trying to figure out the identity of the mystery man in Fantasize who isn’t credited in the film. The last two scenes have Brian Hawkes alone on a bed, ass up and in front of a window. The guy who followed him home has dark and sort of curly hair, a bushy mustache and wears a black shirt with a few buttons opened down his chest. If you have the film he crawls in the window at about 41 minutes and you get some great face shots of him before he walks up to Brian. He looks very familiar but gevi doesn’t give an i.d., can you or anyone here tell who that is?
holy shit bj STOP THE PRESSES I just figured out who that guy is, it’s Brad Mason!! Did I know this, did you? Did Johnny, or Obsessed or any of the others who come by here? On the great Brad post you did a few years ago it’s not mentioned, nor on gevi as I said. He keeps that long sleeved shirt on for the whole final scene when he fucks Brian so most of his tats aren’t seen – but if you pause the clip below at 42.30:
https://www.boyfriendtv.com/videos/1298873/fantasize/
… isn’t that a tat of an anchor on his hand, right near his thumb? Which is noted in his tat breakdown on gevi. Now it makes sense why two of the films I thought I might have seen him in before were Job Site and One In A Billion, since he was in both of those where he’s much easier to pick out due to his multiple tats.
Ooh I think I’m right, not sure if anybody else figured this out before but just picture me as Homer dancing around his living room singing ‘I am so smart, S-M-R-T’ (assuming you think that’s him too) Right under our noses this whole time.
yes yes, you are right – but it’s the face! I did click on your link, and its him – then looked at my files – from 2006 when i sold a copy:
“Starring: Mark Rebel, Nick Jerrett, Randy Page, Brian Nichols, Brian Hawks, Wayne Ferrara, Brad Mason (uncredited) ”
scene 6: Brian is then awoken to a mustached stranger (Brad Mason) who has just come threw the window, and they have fun together. Brad tops Brian condomless.
now, i did NOT have it on my videography page for him, so thanks to you I can add this – thanks!
Yeah his face did look very familiar to me too, though dark hair + stash led to too many possibilities and I was primarily focused on my latest review for the film:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageGayVids/comments/1t2pa03/fantasize_tcs_studio_1984/
To which I added the link to your awesome Brad post from 2022, which you might update also if you feel like it. None of the sources I checked, gevi or even iafd had Brad listed but it doesn’t surprise me you recognized him 20 years ago, even if most of his tats were hidden behind that shirt. And somehow didn’t connect him to this film, partly I suspect since he was uncredited and it’s not on gevi (yet).
Wonder why he wasn’t credited, maybe a contract with a competing studio or something like that. Once I saw the anchor tat on his hand that sealed the deal for me knowing who it was.
Oh and on my Simpsons reference, Homer’s S-M-R-T dance is while his curtains are on fire which he doesn’t realize, but luckily I didn’t burn down my apartment while emulating him last night ;)