““I picked the guys and I picked the clothes. Cut their hair, pluck their eyebrows, shaved ’em. Scrubbed their feet and bleached them so they had nice, white feet. Tan them up and oil them down…”” – John Summers
So, I don’t mean to reduce an excellent, well-researched, and fascinating article into one silly quote – but maybe I just did! I had NO IDEA about John Summers, partly cuz other than the handful of porn directors I go to all the time, FALCON (while having a ton of good material) never seemed director-focused – BUT, mostly, seriously, it wouldn’t have occurred to me that a major player at Falcon all those years was Black.
So you must check out Kelvin Blunt‘s recent piece – John Summers: The Black Co-Founder of Falcon Studios – from the intro: “Summers was attached to movies that were polished, popular, and, in some cases, quietly influential including The Bigger The Better, Two Handfuls, Rock Hard, and Don’t Kiss Me I’m Straight.” Particularly interesting is Summers’ role in Style – so check out the article, then come back and check the clip out.
Below we got a clip, Watercolors found in Falcon’s 1982 film, Style that is mentioned in the article. Also, he mentions this documentary Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes story of – which I think I contributed a couple dollars to several years back, got a complimentary copy, and then stowed it away and never watched – insane, right??!
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That was a fascinating read, great find. I think I realized that about John Summers belatedly too, probably a clip from one of those documentaries like Seed Money or others I’ve found. It gets confusing when multiple names are all associated with the same guy, and directors in porn have that happen to them as much as performers do. But it had a lot of info about the early days which is definitely of interest.
The only quibble I noticed in the linked article was when he claimed Falcon had made the switch to safe sex by 1988 when that is WRONG, they were among the last holdouts in switching to condoms for fucking. The page linked below (listing the first 100 FVPs) seems accurate, though it’s gone and I had to find an archive crawl of it, anyway whoever wrote it said: “Their last pre-condom production was FVP 070, released in 1990. I am still astonished that they could keep up producing bareback porn until that year.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20220820002903/https://hotyoungfuckers.com/2021/02/falconstudios-classic-fvp-001-fvp-100/