The Other Side of Paradise Volume One [Special Author's Uncut Edition]: In The Beginning

Following Bob Chinn’s life from his humble upbringing by Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, the Territory of Hawaii, and southeastern New Mexico, The Other Side of Paradise Volume One shows how the world around him shaped Chinn into the man who would become one of the best adult film directors of all time. Set against the changing times of the ’60s and ’70s, this story provides an invaluable record of how he and his contemporaries took up the fight against censorship, protecting and extending the rights of free speech, and pioneered the golden age of adult film.


About the Author:


Bob Chinn is the creator and porn auteur of the nine-part Johnny Wadd adult film series that, in 1970, launched the career of legendary porn icon, John Curtis Holmes. After graduating from UCLA film school, Chinn had aspirations of becoming a mainstream Hollywood director but began to accept work opportunities in the erotic movie genre in order to support his young family. The film noir character, private detective Johnny Wadd, was conceived by Chinn when a tall young man sporting an unruly afro entered Chinn’s office seeking employment as an actor. Recognizing the potential after the man dropped his pants, Chinn hired John Holmes on the spot, and wrote a script for his new talent on the back of an envelope. Two days later, the very first Johnny Wadd movie was in the can. The modest picture was an instant sensation among adult film fans. Forty years after its release, Johnny Wadd has become a historic and timeless piece of filmmaking that ignited Holmes’ stardom and defined Bob Chinn as one of the most influential and respected players of the so-called Golden Age of adult pictures

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The Other Side of Paradise Volume One [Special Author's Uncut Edition]: In The Beginning

Following Bob Chinn’s life from his humble upbringing by Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, the Territory of Hawaii, and southeastern New Mexico, The Other Side of Paradise Volume One shows how the world around him shaped Chinn into the man who would become one of the best adult film directors of all time. Set against the changing times of the ’60s and ’70s, this story provides an invaluable record of how he and his contemporaries took up the fight against censorship, protecting and extending the rights of free speech, and pioneered the golden age of adult film.


About the Author:


Bob Chinn is the creator and porn auteur of the nine-part Johnny Wadd adult film series that, in 1970, launched the career of legendary porn icon, John Curtis Holmes. After graduating from UCLA film school, Chinn had aspirations of becoming a mainstream Hollywood director but began to accept work opportunities in the erotic movie genre in order to support his young family. The film noir character, private detective Johnny Wadd, was conceived by Chinn when a tall young man sporting an unruly afro entered Chinn’s office seeking employment as an actor. Recognizing the potential after the man dropped his pants, Chinn hired John Holmes on the spot, and wrote a script for his new talent on the back of an envelope. Two days later, the very first Johnny Wadd movie was in the can. The modest picture was an instant sensation among adult film fans. Forty years after its release, Johnny Wadd has become a historic and timeless piece of filmmaking that ignited Holmes’ stardom and defined Bob Chinn as one of the most influential and respected players of the so-called Golden Age of adult pictures

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The Other Side of Paradise Volume One [Special Author's Uncut Edition]: In The Beginning

The Other Side of Paradise Volume One [Special Author's Uncut Edition]: In The Beginning

by Bob Chinn
The Other Side of Paradise Volume One [Special Author's Uncut Edition]: In The Beginning

The Other Side of Paradise Volume One [Special Author's Uncut Edition]: In The Beginning

by Bob Chinn

Overview

Following Bob Chinn’s life from his humble upbringing by Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, the Territory of Hawaii, and southeastern New Mexico, The Other Side of Paradise Volume One shows how the world around him shaped Chinn into the man who would become one of the best adult film directors of all time. Set against the changing times of the ’60s and ’70s, this story provides an invaluable record of how he and his contemporaries took up the fight against censorship, protecting and extending the rights of free speech, and pioneered the golden age of adult film.


About the Author:


Bob Chinn is the creator and porn auteur of the nine-part Johnny Wadd adult film series that, in 1970, launched the career of legendary porn icon, John Curtis Holmes. After graduating from UCLA film school, Chinn had aspirations of becoming a mainstream Hollywood director but began to accept work opportunities in the erotic movie genre in order to support his young family. The film noir character, private detective Johnny Wadd, was conceived by Chinn when a tall young man sporting an unruly afro entered Chinn’s office seeking employment as an actor. Recognizing the potential after the man dropped his pants, Chinn hired John Holmes on the spot, and wrote a script for his new talent on the back of an envelope. Two days later, the very first Johnny Wadd movie was in the can. The modest picture was an instant sensation among adult film fans. Forty years after its release, Johnny Wadd has become a historic and timeless piece of filmmaking that ignited Holmes’ stardom and defined Bob Chinn as one of the most influential and respected players of the so-called Golden Age of adult pictures

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780997148626
Publisher: Rare Bird Lit
Publication date: 08/16/2016
Series: Uncensored Memoirs of Bob Chinn , #1
Edition description: Special Author's Uncut ed.
Pages: 554
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.19(d)

Table of Contents

Preface • Reflections from the Precipice of a Jagged Cliff
Chapter One • The Chinn Family, Strangers in a Strange Land
Chapter Two • The Lamb Family, In Search of the American Dream
Chapter Three • Lake Tahoe to Sicily, Los Angeles to Hawaii-1937 to 1946
Love and Death-A Wartime Romance
Chapter Four • The Chock Family, A Stranger in Paradise
Chapter Five • Lahaina-1947 to 1950, Hawai'i Pono'i
Chapter Six • Lahaina-Honolulu-Los Angeles-Artesia-1950 to 1952, In the Company of Dead Men, Cops and Kings
Chapter Seven • Artesia-1952 to 1954, O Fair New Mexico
Chapter Eight • Artesia-1954 to 1955, Expanding My Horizons
Chapter Nine • Artesia-1955 to 1958, The Magician
Chapter Ten • Artesia-Roswell-Ciudad Juarez-1957 to 1959, And the Band Played the Polka While She Stripped
Chapter Eleven • Roswell-Hawaii-Miami-1958 to 1962, Welcome to the Real World
Chapter Twelve • Los Angeles-1962 to 1964, Looking for Life in the City of Angels
Chapter Thirteen • UCLA-Hollywood-1964 to 1968, From College Student to Hippie
Chapter Fourteen • Hollywood-1968 to 1969, The History of Pornography
Chapter Fifteen • Hollywood-1969 to 1970, From Hippie to Movie Mogul
Chapter Sixteen • Hollywood-Hawaii-1970 to 1972, John Holmes, Johnny Wadd and Me
Chapter Seventeen • Los Angeles-1972 to 1973, Blue Movies, Danish Connections, Psychotic Evangelists and Blue Money
Chapter Eighteen • Hollywood-Jamaica-San Francisco-1973 to 1975, The Rise and Fall of Pantheon Pictures Corporation
The Geneaology of the Chock Family In a Direct Line to Chock Chin
Acknowledgments
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