The story of making The Movie Orgy as told to I'm Ready for My Close-Up FM radio show host Alex Fitch. This is my transcription of the radio program. TMO plays today (July 27, 2025) in resorted version in London. – EK
The Movie Orgy [was] the first film that I ever did. It used to run seven hours. It is made entirely of found footage. It came about because in the late 60s, there was a lot of interest in "camp" movies. Susan Sontag's essay had come out and people were discussing the issue. The 1943 Batman serial was released as an entire package. You would go and you would sit in the theatre and you'd watch five hours of chapter plays and you would see all the cheating that went on from the end of chapter two to the beginning of chapter three. "Wait a minute, he got hit by a truck at the end of chapter two but in the beginning of chapter three he rolls away from the truck because they figured after the week went by the kids wouldn't remember." Anyway, it was very funny and it was also interestingly very racist because it was World War II production.
