''The Naked World of Harrison Marks'' is a 1966 British
pseudo-documentary
A pseudo-documentary or fake documentary is a film or video production that takes the form or style of a documentary film but does not portray real events. Rather, scripted and fictional elements are used to tell the story. The pseudo-documentary, ...
about adult film director and photographer
George Harrison Marks
George Harrison Marks (6 August 1926 – 27 June 1997) was an English glamour photographer and director of nudist, and later, pornographic films.
Personal life
Born in Tottenham, Middlesex in 1926, Marks was 17 when he married his first wife ...
. It takes a look at his daily life, with added dream sequences, and is narrated by
Valentine Dyall
Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor. He worked regularly as a voice actor, and was known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series '' Appointment with Fear'' ...
. The film was mainly shot at Harrison Marks' studios at Lily Place, London, with the occasional location such as Ewhurst Manor. It was during the auditions for the film that George Harrison Marks met his future wife, Toni Burnett.
The (Naked) World of Harrison Marks - Pamela Green
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Even though it had censorship troubles with the BBFC
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due to its abundant nudity
Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing.
The loss of body hair was one of the physical characteristics that marked the biological evolution of modern humans from their hominin ancestors. Adaptations related to ...
,[Simon Sheridan, ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'', Titan Books 2011 p. 52] it ran for over a year in London's West End.
References
External links
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''The Naked World of Harrison Marks''
at TCMDB
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''The (Naked) World of Harrison Marks''
at Never Knowingly Overdressed
1966 films
British documentary films
Nudity in film
1960s English-language films
1960s British films
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