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[Film] The origin of the phrase 'Blue Movie'?



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Lenny Rider

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Asking for my hearse driver, talking about football coach trips of yesteryear and various VHS titles, and he asked 'How did they come up with the term Blue Movie?'

I replied I didn't know, but someone on NSC will.
 




Psychobilly freakout

Psychobilly freakout

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Feb 23, 2009
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Lenny Rider said:
Asking for my hearse driver, talking about football coach trips of yesteryear and various VHS titles, and he asked 'How did they come up with the term Blue Movie?'

I replied I didn't know, but someone on NSC will.
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Have you not heard of google ?

The use of the word "blue" to refer to sexually explicit content was first recorded in Scotland in 1824. "Blue" meant "lewd" because prostitutes dressed in blue gowns.
 


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blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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The colour it went 3 days after the moment, when as a 14 year old you, discovered where your dads secret stash was?
 


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m@goo

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Do people still use the term "blue"? :lolol:

"Ohh he's a bit blue" is something Nan's used to say in the 80's.
 


Pavilionaire

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I believe the term 'blue' is borrowed from snooker, taken because it covers all the sexual activity between brown and pink.
 




AmexRuislip

AmexRuislip

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Lenny Rider said:
Asking for my hearse driver, talking about football coach trips of yesteryear and various VHS titles, and he asked 'How did they come up with the term Blue Movie?'

I replied I didn't know, but someone on NSC will.
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Is this request from beyond the grave :wozza:
 




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Stato

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I think that it goes back prior to film when, in publishing, censors showed suggested deletions by marking with a blue pencil. 'Blue' became a byword for stuff that may be censored and I guess was applied to films when they started to be produced.

I know that Max Miller used to ask his audience whether they wanted jokes from his white book or blue book. Obviously as a bit of schtick as nobody ever asked for the white book.
 








Mr Bridger

Mr Bridger

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Psychobilly freakout said:
Have you not heard of google ?

The use of the word "blue" to refer to sexually explicit content was first recorded in Scotland in 1824. "Blue" meant "lewd" because prostitutes dressed in blue gowns.
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My Nan used to have a lewd rinse.
 








PILTDOWN MAN

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drew

drew

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So this leads to where the word 'pornography' comes from and it appears 'porni' is greek for prostitute and graphien the term for 'to write'.

Who would have guessed.
 


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Gwylan

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In Italian, libri azzurri are travel books. I'm not sure what colours Italians use for porno
 


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Lindfield by the Pond

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drew said:
So this leads to where the word 'pornography' comes from and it appears 'porni' is greek for prostitute and graphien the term for 'to write'.

Who would have guessed.
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So today hasn't been a total waste of time.......... I feel I have learnt something. I only worry about what nugget has been replaced by this one :amex:
 










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