The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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Once Marks got down to business, Practical Photography found him to be one of the fastest photographers they had ever encountered, forever changing his positions and angles, taking photographs from above his head right down to sand level, “often his shooting poses are as interesting as the models” they noted, going on to claim Marks in action resembled a human tripod. Further embarrassment awaited when Marks was invited as a guest on the BBC’s Tonight programme, and after running a clip from one of the comedy films, the less than impressed host Kenneth Alsop turned round to Marks and asked “what was funny about that? He was fond of good living and a drink or two, and he wanted to go on to soft porn," Green told Tit-Bits magazine in 1995, adding "there was this one film where he was dressed as a dirty old man and he's creeping round Piccadilly Circus, then you see him in bed with this girl".

Pam’s friend, the film critic Peter Noble would help them out by getting Marks’ pictures and Green’s writing printed in the variety of publications that Noble wrote for. In later years Marks was reluctant to discuss these hardcore short films and claimed 'not to remember' their names.

Marks made ends meet during this period by continuing to shoot short films for the 8mm market and releasing them via his Maximus Films company. As Marks and Green’s fame grew, and their names became synonymous with glamour photography, they began to gain exposure outside of their own magazines, Practical Photography Magazine was on hand to document a Marks photo session in the early 1960s, when they accompanied Marks, Green, another model and their studio manager to a shoot at Littlehampton Sands, in West Sussex. But he was wrong about that—try as we might, we can’t find mention of an actress named Donna Selby anywhere.

Clips from The Window Dresser were used in a 1964 piece on the glamour film scene in the Rediffusion programme This Week. For Marks’ core audience Naked as Nature Intended’s big appeal lay in seeing their favourite A5 sized fantasy figures projected as giant-sized living, breathing nudes on the silver screen, a famous shot on a beach opens the film with Pamela Green taking a slow walk towards the camera with a towel to protect her modesty. In past times Dolezal would have been a local kook, but one considered harmless in the scheme of things. This begat, a particularly turbulent time in the early seventies when he was made bankrupt (in September 1970), was the subject of an obscenity trial at the Old Bailey (in 1971) and his drinking began to become more heavy. On a whim, they took him up on the offer and soon made their stage debut at the bottom end of a variety bill at the Granville Theatre in Walham Green.I did so, and he had no sooner set up his camera when a stranger strolled up, George rushed into the sea, gripped me by the shoulders and pushed me under.