The Good Old Naughty Days
The Good Old Naughty Days (French: Polissons et galipettes) is a 2002 film by Michel Reilhac. It gathers more than 300 silent porn clips made between 1905 and 1930, mostly in France and originally shown in brothels. Reilhac re-edited the clips and added a new soundtrack by Eric Le Guen. The collection also includes the American pornographic animation Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure (circa 1928), which had never been released in theaters before.
The films cover early porn themes, including adaptations of classics like Madame Butterfly, common tropes such as the musketeer and the milkmaid, recurring characters like lascivious nuns and priests, and scenes of bestiality. The filmmaker argues that the modern porn industry did not invent these ideas—many had already been filmed in the past.
In 2003, The Good Old Naughty Days became the first R18 film shown in UK cinemas in over a decade, drawing on its historical, “classic” style and status as historical footage.
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