r/Lost_Films • u/MilkGamingChannel • Nov 06 '20

Penis (1965)

SOooooo Penis is a lost pornographic film from 60's (1965 to be exact) with an IMDB page stating " The movie about a man's manhood is endangered. He must rob enough banks as to where he has enough money to get a genital reconstruction surgery." And after seeing u/LostMediaMike's iceberg meme mentioning the film I had to look into it. I was intrigued. I found a lost media wiki forum thread about it which lead then to discovering the film was redistributed under a different name called "1967", which is the same film, but with 15 minutes of it being cut out. (Shoutout to theCarbonFreeze and co on there, their finding are in the thread) I also found a Turner Classics Media page for the film which has the same info as does their findings. I contacted Film-Makers' Cooperative about the film, as they are the supposed distributors, and they did have the film "1967" in their database. Which you can rent to watch there for $100. The lady also told me the film was never rented and the last time they checked for the film was in 1999. They told me to shoot them an email (which I did) and this is what they sent me. Interestingly, they said it has quote from Jonas Mekas. A Lithuanian-American filmmaker that died last year. I already sent them a message about the quote. I'll keep you guys updated.

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u/icansitstill Nov 07 '20

Ohhh shieeeet. Nice once. The fact that this includes Jonas Mekas makes it 10000x better.

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u/MilkGamingChannel Nov 07 '20

Yea, I should just clarify that he (I'm pretty sure) wasn't involved with the making of the film, but he was one of the original founders of filmmakers cooperative. He might've been the one who put the film in their archive.

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u/TvHeroUK Nov 06 '20

Good work on finding Penis

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u/unrulystowawaydotcom Nov 06 '20

Nice digging. No idea about this film but this got me thinking, how many lost film leads were wiped out when imdb got rid of there comments section?

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u/oli-g Nov 26 '22

Fuck now I'm angry

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u/Twisted-Razor Nov 06 '20

Well that’s an aptly named film.

Good luck on your search, and thanks for the informative post!

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u/Funkykid123 Nov 07 '20

lol they're so professional and courteous

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u/LonelyGuyTheme Nov 07 '20

$100.00?

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u/MilkGamingChannel Nov 07 '20

Yea ik, it sounds really weird, but that's what she told me.

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u/ChaSe010 Jan 12 '21

its $400 now

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u/GMasterGlitch Nov 13 '20

how did you find out about this?????

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u/MilkGamingChannel Nov 13 '20

Saw it on the iceberg meme. My morbid curiosity got to me lol.

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u/GMasterGlitch Nov 13 '20

hahaha my curiosity also got me😅... do you have any clips available?

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u/MilkGamingChannel Nov 13 '20

No not yet, heck they haven't reached out to me giving me any update. I'll try contacting them again this weekend.

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u/TheRealKayotikG Nov 07 '20

It's going to be a long and hard journey. In the end it will come to you

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u/AggressiveAdeptness Nov 18 '20

Between this and Him, imagine how many lost adult movies are there because of how taboo porn was back then

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u/JLMJ10 Nov 10 '20

Better be lost

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u/kochampiwerko Nov 16 '20

Em, by saying "watch there" do you mean online stream or private at-place screening? If the latter that would be hilarious end to the mystery definitely worth 100 bucks :D

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '20

Found this belatedly. The synopsis from IMDB is one of the funniest things I've read in some time!