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Art or porn?

The Good Old Naughty Days is a smorgasbord of amateur porn from cinema's infancy. But can you tell it apart from the highest expressions of the seventh art? Have a look at these ten pictures, and for each case answer one simple question: art, or porn?

Art or porn? 1. A young filly, glimpsed in her undies through the keyhole. Is it art (Claude Chabrol's 1959 À Double Tour)? Or porn?
 
  Porn
  Art
 
Art or porn? 2. More through-the-keyhole fun. Is it art (Jacques Tati's 1953 film M Hulot's Holiday)? Or porn?
 
  Porn
  Art
 
Art or porn? 3. A convivial scene, and no mistake. Again: art (Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality, 1923)? Or porn?
 
  Art
  Porn
 
Art or porn? 4. A glimpse of stocking. Is it art (Marlene Dietrich in 1930's The Blue Angel)? Or porn?
 
  Porn
  Art
 
Art or porn? 5. Bad habits. Art (Audrey Hepburn and Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story, 1959)? Or porn?
 
  Porn
  Art
 
Art or porn? 6. Can this sort of thing really be art (Kurosawa's Scandal, 1950)? Or is it porn?
 
  Art
  Porn
 
Art or porn? 7. Is this saucy young lady the silver screen icon Louise Brooks? Or is this just yet more porn?
 
  Porn
  Art
 
Art or porn? 8. Do you recognise this lady as the great comic actor of silent cinema Mabel Normand? Or is she a dilettante of the early porn scene?
 
  Art
  Porn
 
Art of porn? 9. Nothing too scandalous here ... yet. Is this about to degenerate into art (Pandora's Box, 1929)? Or porn?
 
  Porn
  Art
 
Art or porn? 10. A femme-bot with pointy conical breasts. Art (Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926)? Or porn?
 
  Art
  Porn
 
 


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