Steven Morowitz was born for SKINema. He’s the second-generation owner of DistribPix , the legendary distributor that’s been credited with creating the adult industry “one pubic hair at a time”. DistribPix was created in 1965 and thrived by providing the grindhouses of Times Square with sexploitation fare like Michael and Roberta Findlay ‘s Satan’s Bed (1965) and Joe Sarno ‘s The Bed and How to Make It! (1966). Bit by bit, these films pushed the limits of what could be shown on screen until adult films as we know them first came into being in the late 60’s. It was then that DistribPix blossomed into a production company that produced many of the classics of the “Golden Age” of porn from directors like Bill Lustig , Chuck Vincent , Carter Stevens , Shaun Costello , Danny Stone , and The Amero Brothers . And when VHS came along, DistribPix was once again at the forefront of this SKINematic revolution, distributing films from their massive catalog for the home video market. But the decline of the VHS market also caused a decline in DistribPix’s business, and by the early 2000s the company had essentially gone dormant. That’s when Steven stepped in and made it his mission to restore and re-release these historically important films in deluxe special editions that put them in their “proper historical context” (i.e.,come packed with cool commentary and illuminating extras). DistribPix is the company behind the restoration of Naked Came the Stranger (1975) released earlier this year ( see HD pics and clips here at Mr. Skin ), as well as the HD restoration of The Opening of Misty Beethoven we told you about earlier this week on the Mr. Skin blog. We talked to Steven at home in New York City, where he told us about growing up in Times Square, some of the gems of the DistribPix catalog, and their Kickstarter campaign to bring Misty to Blu-ray. More after the jump!
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