[Marathon Trims] (Reel 1) (silent)

Description: Trims and outtakes from an pornographic feature apparently titled either "Marathon" or "Marathon '79." This reel shows the story setup using documentation footage of an actual New York City Marathon event, with many sequences filmed in Central Park showing public crowds at that event. In staged sequences, a man watches the marathon and flirts with one of the runners who is also an actor. With multiple takes and scenes in which the actor playing the runner responds to direction from the camera. The feature to which these sequences belong is unidentified, but the trims and outtakes are offered here to contribute to histories of LGBTQIA culture, histories of pornographic film, and histories of sporting events.

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Subjects: 1970s, Sports, Gender roles, LGBTQ+ history and culture , Sex

Tags: marathons; New York; New York City Marathon 1979; crowds; audience; runners; athletes; audience; man peeling orange; Central Park; 1970s fashions; running culture; running craze; man offering apple slices to runners; man flirting with man; men flirt; LGBTQI+ research interest; gay men; gay culture; slow motion film; male gaze; man taking direction from camera director; acting; actors; runners eye view; trees; treetops; sky photography; stormy sky; New York City Marathon banner; Perrier sponsor; "385 yards to go" sign; finish line; man with movie camera; cheering; applause; crowds; 1970s clothing; 1970s crowds; spectators; police officers; park rangers; disabled runner; person in wheelchair competing in marathon; man jogging in place; crotch shots; jumping jacks; Trax shoes; track suits; sweat bands; Daly's Daffodil sign; short shorts; "Adam's Apple" flag; people handing water to runners; shirtless runners;


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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1979

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Geographical Location: USA; New York, New York; New York

Genre/Form: outtakes and trims, fiction, erotica, documentation

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal, outs/trims

Color: color

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 876