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    The Naked Truth

    Jan 03, 2019 2 minutes
    By Max Nelson

    Nude on the Moon

    Doris Wishman (as “Anthony Brooks”), 1961, 4K preservation by the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)

    THE INTREPID EXPLOITATION FILMMAKER DORIS WISHMAN remembered the “nudies” she made in the early 1960s with an almost nostalgic fondness. “You know that these pictures had no sex at exploring a lunar nudist colony with dumbstruck wonder, taking pictures and scribbling notes about the women who stroll around them with languid indifference.

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