Casting Porn Movies at the Mitchell Brothers

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KRON News footage from November 26th 1974 with reporter John Fulmer, featuring a look at how the Mitchell Brothers Film Company, based at the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, manages casting for it's many porn film releases. Includes a brief interview with "Chekene" who explains their actors come from many different backgrounds, including doctors, lawyers and athletes. He speculates that: "I think ... they want to work out their fantasies." Ends with silent shots of Fulmer interviewing Chekene. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.

Type of material
local newsfilm
Duration
1:57
16mm color magnetic sound film
Rights for this video belong to
Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
Date aired
11/26/1974
Originally aired on
KRON-TV
Identifier
KRON 3786-16
Views
10886

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Comments

Over a year ago, Karen KAY wrote…

Classic footage. I met Artie a couple years after this. I was the caterer for the filming of Autobiography of a Flea. Long story (see my movie Rated X by Showtime with Charlie Sheen) but I ended up with Chuck's ("Chekene" here) job, advertising, interviewing, hiring and scheduling the Actors and Dancers at the O'Farrell Theatre in 1976.

It went like this: "Hello, do you enjoy dancing? Are you comfortable with nudity? Do you feel open to intimacy with those of the same gender? Please give me your driver's license. Take your close off while I go make a copy of your license and I will be right back. OH, you look great. Please turn around. Show me a little dance step or two. The pay is minimum wage but the girls are making about $500 to a $1,000 a day, are you OK with that? OK, you are hired. Check in with me on Friday and I will give you your schedule for the week. I ended up marrying Artie and we raised a batch of kids. Artie died at the hands of his brother Jim on February 27, 1991. Jim spent 3 years in San Quentin then did a leveraged buyout of our assets from my children. 

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