The Library of Spanking Fiction: Wellred Weekly
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George Harrison Marks  George Harrison Marks was born in London on 6th August 1926, the same day that Warner Brothers released the first movie to have a synchronised sound track. This might in hindsight be regarded as prophetic as the making of movies was to play a very significant role in George's life.Shortly after the end of the Second World War George and his wife Diana went to live with his aunt and uncle in Brighton. His uncle bought him a camera and George set about making a career in photography, initially on the seafront but later moving back to London where he planned on developing his career as a theatrical photographer.  Around late 1951 he found and rented a first floor flat in the heart of Soho which he was able to use as a photographic studio and it was here that he first met Pamela Green, a showgirl and professional photographic model, who suggested that George try his hand at nude photography, offering to be his first model.She went on to become the greatest single influence in his life and not long after their meeting they became business partners and began selling sets of postcard sized monochrome photographic prints, initially featuring just Pamela but later a number of other models too. During the following 10 years Harrison Marks' photographs appeared in men's magazines published all over the western world. In 1957 George launched a thirty-two page monthly publication in pocketbook format called Kamera which was devoted to nude studies of young women. It was the first glamour magazine of any note in the UK and heralded the top-shelf magazine industry in the country. The first issue of Kamera, which featured 16 different models, had an original print run of 15,000 copies and sold out within a few days. It was estimated that around 100,000 copies were sold in the first five weeks and by the end of the first three months Kamera had sold over a quarter of a million copies.      At the end of the fifties George and Pamela ventured into home movie production featuring their most popular models. However, by the end of 1959 his constant drunkenness (he was typically consuming at least one bottle of Scotch a day), extravagance, womanising and minimal contribution to the day to day running of the business contributed to a downturn in sales and also had a terminal effect on his personal relationship with Pamela. George went on to make hundreds of glamour films and also later directed a number of feature films including Come Play With Me in 1977, which was produced by David Sullivan and starred Mary Millington. It is regarded by many as the most successful British sexploitation film of all time. In 1965, during auditions for one of his much earlier films, The Naked World of Harrison Marks, George met Toni Burnett with whom he later began a relationship. After a couple of false alarms it was announced that Toni was pregnant - George was to become a father and their daughter, Josie, was born on 15th December 1967.   In the mid-seventies George was offered a commission to do some 8mm spanking movies for Janus and got to know the staff of the magazine well. At the time the editor of the magazine was Alan Van Okker who was in his late seventies and suffering from poor health. Following his death in 1980 it seemed that no-one else in the company was capable of putting the magazine together. By coincidence, George happened to visit a pub in Soho called The Swiss and there ran into the Janus team who told him about their problem. After some discussion George was persuaded to become the editor and carried out that role for the next 18 months. During this period, as well as writing some of the story lines, he took many of the still photographs that were subsequently reproduced in the magazine and continued to produce and direct home movies for Janus. He also produced a number of his own spanking titles at the same time, such as Rear Attack. In 1982, he appeared at Lewes Crown Court accused of publishing and possessing obscene articles for gain. George knew that he was guilty and that pleading guilty guaranteed a minimum jail sentence of 12 months but nevertheless he risked a longer jail term by making a 'not guilty' plea. During the proceedings the judge appeared to recognise the defendant's name and asked him to confirm if he was the Harrison Marks who was the editor of Janus. George confirmed that he was and was later astonished when, during the course of his summing up, the judge directed the jury to find George 'not guilty' due to lack of evidence. It would of course be purely speculative to suggest that his judgement may have been influenced by a public school education and a consequent predilection for spanking material. After he left Janus it didn't take long for George to realise that the market that Janus served had a lot of potential and he soon decided to publish his own CP magazine. He formed a new company for the purpose entitled Derriere Limited and financed his new publication by raising a mortgage on the house he was living in. George called his new magazine Kane, a naming pattern similar to that he had used when publishing Kamera a quarter of a century earlier. The first issue was published in September 1982 with a cover price of £5. There proved to be no shortage of girls who claimed to be turned on by the idea of submitting to corporal punishment to fill the photographic feature pages of George's new monthly spanking magazine, provided of course that they were adequately recompensed for their suffering.      As male models were very often difficult to find George sometimes took the male lead and soon became a dab hand at administering an over the knee spanking or wielding various instruments of punishment. One of the most popular fantasies amongst many CP enthusiasts is the spanking of teenage schoolgirls, which was still common practice in British, Commonwealth and American schools of the period. Naturally, when George began publishing Kane he also focused on this theme as can be seen from a number of the magazine's covers. Despite a successful launch and a growing circulation Kane did not generate a substantial profit during its first year of publication. It did, however, provide an ideal platform from which he could promote and sell home movies again.  George concluded that, in order to provide his customers with what they really wanted, he would have to produce and direct the films himself. In 1984 he acquired the services of a videographer and shot his first video, The Cane and Mr. Abel, starring celebrity model Linzi Drew as a games mistress who nevertheless ends up on the receiving end of a good spanking.Another three videos followed but financing the production costs continued to be a problem. Fortunately, towards the end of 1985 George was offered a partnership with a professional cinematographer he had worked with in the sixties and together they formed Kane International which would go on to produce all future Kane CP videos. For the first video they made together an ideal location was found - a genuine Grammar School which had been abandoned some years ago. Two rooms were hired for a period of one month, one featuring its original wall-mounted blackboard and the other to be used as the Headmaster's office. This first Kane International video shoot encountered a number of technical problems and to be on the safe side it was decided to shoot a second movie just in case the first film couldn't be salvaged. It was this second film, entitled Mandy Bait, which ended up being the first Kane International video to be released, going on sale in March 1986 with stills from the movie being heavily featured in Kane No.29. Mandy Bait sold very well and the new partnership went on to produce a long string of successful spanking movies. A decade later the derelict Grammar School which had provided the setting for the first film was sold to the County Constabulary and later became the new police headquarters. Many of the subsequent movies that George produced were filmed using his own house as the setting and it soon became clear that schoolgirl spanking themes was where the greatest amount of enthusiasts' interest lay. Kane magazine provided George with an ongoing supply of willing young women and the income generated from video sales kept him in booze, cigarettes and an acceptable degree of comfort for the rest of his days. During the next thirteen years well over 100 spanking films were produced, most of which are available to members of the Harrison-Marks website, and in addition George went on to stage live spanking shows every couple of months at a London restaurant. These featured between six and a dozen of his regular female models who bent over to have their naughty bare bottoms chastised for the pleasure of the diners, not to mention the benefit of the girls' and George's pockets. George died on 27th June, 1997 and I am told that at the very moment of death the front bedroom of 19 Wellington Avenue, the room where he had been born some seventy years earlier, burst into flames.  5 comments
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