The Story of X (1998)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1998
Running Times:
Format: black and white / colour
Ratio:
Sound: stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Calliope Films / Playboy Entertainment Group Inc
Associate Producers: John Leonetti, Jennifer S. McGonigal

DIRECTION
Director: Chuck Workman

PHOTOGRAPHY
Documentary Sequences Photographers: Michael Messenheimer, John Sharaf
Host Sequences Photographer: Nancy Schreiber

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Chuck Workman, Jeremy Workman

MUSIC
Music Clearances: Music Clearance Inc.

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Marc Greville-Masson

MISCELLANEOUS
Film Clips Courtesy Of: 10 db Productions; All Channel Films; Alliance Productions; Argos Films; CTE (Carlton) Limited (Bad Timing; Canterbury Tales); Caballero Home Video; Cable Entertainment Distribution; Canal Plus Image International (Emmanuelle; Le mépris); Corinth International; El Deseo S.A.; Emerald City; Estate of William Burroughs; Fine Line Features (Short Cuts); Gades Films International; General Media Inc; Independent-International Pictures Corporation; Krypton International; Leisure Time Entertainment (Frankenpenis); Lolafilms S.A.; MGM Consumer Products; Mars International Productions (M.I.P.); Mitchell Brothers Pictures; Mystic Fire Video; National Film Board of Canada (Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography); New Line Productions Inc (Female Trouble); New Yorker Films; Playboy Entertainment Group Inc; RM Films International; Something Weird Video; The Addison Gallery (Eadweard Muybridge: Motion Studios); TriStar Television; Trimark Pictures (Whore); UGC DA International; VCA Pictures; VCX; Van Ness / Fox Starr; Verenigde Nederlandsche Filmcompagnie; Video Team; Vivid Video; Worldvision Enterprises Inc
Stock Footage and News Material: ABC News Video Source
Stage Facilities: 10 db Productions
Production Insurance: AON / Albert G. Ruben Insurance Services Inc

CAST
Buck Henry (host)
Ginger Lynn Allen (herself in archive footage)
Juliet Anderson (herself)
Samuel Z. Arkoff (himself)
Juli Ashton (herself)
Candy Barr (herself in archive footage)
Bernardo Bertolucci (himself)
Christy Canyon (herself)
Marilyn Chambers (herself in archive footage)
Raquel Darrian (herself in archive footage)
Debbie D (herself)
Lisa De Leeuw (herself in archive footage)
Vanessa Del Rio (herself)
Debbie Dutch (herself)
Andrea Dworkin (herself in archive footage)
Jeanna Fine (herself in archive footage)
Stanley Fleischman (himself)
Samantha Fox (herself in archive footage)
David Friedman (himself)
Al Goldstein (himself)
Russell Hampshire (himself)
Nina Hartley (herself)
Hugh Hefner (himself)
John Holmes (himself in archive footage)
Ron Jeremy (himself)
Charles Keating (himself in archive footage)
Zalman King (himself)
Edward Koch (himself in archive footage)
Chasey Lain (herself)
SaRenna Lee (herself)
Janine (real name: Janine Lindemulder) (herself)
Traci Lords (herself in archive footage)
Linda Lovelace (herself in archive footage)
Amber Lynn (herself in archive footage)
Catherine McKinnon (herself in archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield (herself in archive footage)
Bill Margold (himself)
Michael Medved (himself)
Russ Meyer (himself)
Kate Millett (herself in archive footage)
Jonathan Morgan (himself)
Camille Paglia (herself)
Roman Polanski (himself in archive footage)
Harry Reems (himself in archive footage)
Savannah (herself in archive footage)
Seka (herself in archive footage)
Nikki Tyler (herself in archive footage)
Jack Valenti (himself)
Mike Wallace (himself in archive footage)
John Wayne (himself in archive footage)
Mike Weldon (himself)
Tori Welles (herself in archive footage)
Donald Wildmon (himself in archive footage)

PLOT SUMMARY

A documentary on the history of the American adult film industry.

USA
Video Distributors: Playboy Home Video; Universal Music and Video Distribution

USA
Rating: X

From Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Playboy - The Story of X

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Ai no corrida (1976)
Behind the Green Door (1972)
Belle de jour (1967)
Deep Throat (1972)
The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Edward Penishands (1991)
Female Trouble (1974)
Frankenpenis (1996)
Fritz the Cat (1972)
The Hypnotist (no date
I Spit on Your Corpse! (1974)
Insatiable (1980)
Latex (1995)
Matador (1986)
Mondo Bizarro (1966)
Mondo Freudo (1968)
Mondo oscenità (1966)
I racconti di Canterbury (1971)
Satyricon (1969)
Supervixens (1975)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Uncle Cy and the Sirens (no date)

SEE ALSO
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Acid Eaters (1968)
Adán y Eva (1956)
The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide (1972)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
Die Blechtrommel (1979)
The Body Beneath (1970)
Caress of the Vampire 2 (1996)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Coven (1993)
Cyberanal (1995)
Dark Dreams (1971)
Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver (1967)
O Exorcismo Negro (1974)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Magic Spectacles (1961)
The Natural (1984)
Olga's Girls (1964)
La perversa caricia de Satán (1975)
Polymorph (1996)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Sex Rituals of the Occult (1970)
Space-Thing (1968)
Spie vengono dal semifreddo (1966)
Troll (1971)
The White Buffalo (1977)

documentary, film history, porn, sex

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008