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Subject: Re:Question, MK...

Date: Fri 30/03/12 23:09:49 GMT

Name: MK

Email: wamtec@comcast.net

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I have been searching for both items for 20+ years. Neither of them have ever been released on vhs or dvd or aired on tv in decades. The status of those items is this ...

Corpse of Beverly Hills: This has not been aired in the UK or USA since the 1970's. This was a U.S./ German co-production that has aired on German late night tv stations in the 1980's....but nobody I know has been able to capture it on tv in 20 years. A collector in Germany sent me a bootleg copy of the film in 1995...and that is a very poor copy of the film that was made by pointing a video camera at a film projector screen....so I have this bootleg vhs version but the quality is not very good....i.e. the colors are faded and the focus is not very sharp...so all I have is this soft focus bootleg copy of the entire film on an old VHS tape...and I have been searching to find a better copy ever since the 1990's. However, even from the low quality version I have, I can see that this is a major AAA scene that I would love to get one day at DVD quality. We know that prints of the film are still in circulation in Germany....cos 4-5 years ago the film was screened again at the Berlin film festival.....so the best chance to find this film and capture it properly would be for German wetlook fans to catch it on the late night tv channels in Germany.

With Love Sophia: This 1968 tv special is unlikely to be released or screened anywhere....cos I tracked it down to UCLA.....and unless somebody with major credentials in the Film industry can persuade the UCLA Film and Television Archives in Los Angelese to lend them the only known mastertape that exists for this show...cos UCLA hold the only known broadcast tape of that show....and if you check the UCLA Library listings, they have a special note against the mastertape....that says "tape is in extremely fragile condition - not to be released to the screening room, -- the colors are faded and the mastertape is decaying.and in need of digital restoration".

Heck....I would offer to do a digital restoration for them on DVD for nothing....cos I just did the exact same thing for the rare 1969 Herb Albert/Petula Clark tv special "The Brass is Coming"...which has 2 excellent wetlook scenes with Petula playing in the sea in a white evening dress, and later in the show she does the best version of "Singing the Rain" I have seen...with lots of female dancers and Petula getting wet in miniskirts and boots. I was able to track down a collector who had an old tv tape of the show, and the version he sent to me was very dark and with faded colors and not very clear, and I was able to load that to my edit system and enhance the gamma and sharpen it and brighten the scenes and increase the color saturation to put back the colors....so I have been able to restore that old tape and make those scenes digitally enhanced.

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Question, MK...

By FountainFrolic - Fri 30/03/12 19:41:25 GMT

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Is "The Corpse of Beverly Hills" one of those long-lost films that aren't currently in your inventory and available as clips? I seem to remember that being the case??? What about "With Love Sophia"??

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Re:are there any wetlook-inspired known artists?

By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Fri 30/03/12 19:17:10 GMT

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I do not know the art world, but there are some mainstream film directors who were known for their interests in wetlook......e.g

JOHN DEREK: Former 50's swashbuckling actor John Derek later become a director and he photographed his 3 most famous former wives in wetlook scenarios....i.e. Ursula Andress, where he directed her wetlook scenes in the 1965 jungle movie "Once Before I Die", and then he married Linda Evans and did wetlook photoshoots with her, and then he married Maureen Collins -- who he re-named as Bo Derek...and then he proceeded to direct film the same wetlook scenes with Bo in the 1981film "Tarzan the Ape Man" which are similar to the scenes he had shot with his former wife Ursula Andress in "Once Before I Die".....so he definitely had a proclivity for filming his wives in wet clothing.

MICHAEL PFLEGHAR: Then there is the tragic story of German film and tv director Michael Pfleghar. He lived and died for wetlook....cos he filmed the greatest wetlook movie scene of all time (as per my opinion)...which was when Heidelinde Weiss wades into the pool in her evening dress during an avante party where all the guests are wading in the pool fully clothed....this was from the 1964 film "The Corpse of Beverly Hills" (aka Die Tote Von Beverly Hills)...and that scene is similar to the Angie Dickinson scene on the "Pearl" miniseries, but better. Anyway, afterthat film he later made the 1968 tv special "With Love Sophia" and got

Sophia Loren to dance into the swimming pool in her flamenco dress and fishnets (see all the pics on the www.vintagewet.com site). And then in 1971 the same director created the "KlimBim" comedy series in Germany and did lots of wetlook scenes in that tv series with Ingrid Steeger. Sadly, he died in 1991....he committed suicide...and was found fully clothed in his bath at the time......so he lived and died as a wetlook fetishist.

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Re:are there any wetlook-inspired known artists?

By Bruno - Fri 30/03/12 10:00:37 GMT

Website: http://arthurchappell.me.uk/wetlook.contents.htm

Yes there are some.

One I have met personally is: David Wilkey from England. He has a large collection of very erotic wetlook paintings.

http://hits.sploshdownloads.com/cgi/autogal.pl?vidnum=tws-227-0014

"MOVING PICTURES

£10, $18, €18

The first of David Wilkey's photo paperbacks. Hundreds of pin-sharp pictures from his wetlook adventures in colour and black & white - and even a few of his paintings. People who know and love Wilkey's wet work will appreciate his dedication to capturing the translucency and sheen of wet fabric and that dedication is showcased perfectly here."

Then have a look at "Ophelia" floating in a lake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia

Or have a look at this: http://arthurchappell.me.uk/wetlook.contents.htm

Regards

Bruno

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are there any wetlook-inspired known artists?

By Jessica - friends@fantasystockings.com Fri 30/03/12 08:17:40 GMT

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Hi!

I'll give you an example, there were guys like Helmut Newton and Pierre Molinier who had a real obsession with hosiery. Pierre Molinier had some pretty wild and explicit work, but I saw him at an exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He was an openly fetish-driven artist.

(article: http://fantasystockings.com/?p=613 )

Are there any wetlook inspired artists that are featured in international art galleries? I would love to learn about them. (well, don't mean the guy who drew Ophelia from Hamlet, that wasn't really wetlook inspired).

Jessica

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