I was reading Jack's PDF and I really thought it could be a possibility the vacuum cleaner scene is featured in a recopilation for specific categories ir kinks, though I haven't searched by myself
Hey. Not sure if this is known information since I don't really follow this search, but it seems like Ed D Louie might have went by the pseudonym Eddie Louie as well. Might be worth exploring if there's anything about the movie "Him" under this name?
Then there's this nude photoshoot someone named "Eddie Louie" did for National Screw magazine. I don't know if it's the same man, I think this is probably a coincidence... he was an artist, not a photographer. If it IS him, I'm guessing he went by "Eddie" for heterosexual works but went by "Ed D." for the homosexual ones.
If my theory is correct, then it'd explain why The Hustler sculptures under the name Eddie Louie are female shaped, while the ones under the name Ed D. Louie are phallic/have gay undertones. Might be a coincidence, but I don't know. It could be worth exploring anything he might have released under the Eddie pseudonym and see if it leads to the movie "Him".
Another thing; there's a book called "The golden age of promiscuity" published in 1996 by Brad Gooch that mentions Tava von Will (the guy who plays Jesus) at some point and makes a reference to the movie HIM. It sounds like Gooch might have watched the movie.
"Tava made an eight-millimeter movie of himself as Christ on the cross, without a loincloth"
The book is available through the Internet Archive through borrowing, if anyone's interested to read it.
Nice finds! I'll try and incorporate those magazine listings into my piece on the film. I might hold off on including details from Gooch's book, given that it's self-described as a novel and so is likely (at least) fictionalised anyway. Still, it's an interesting little titbit nonetheless.
Another thing; there's a book called "The golden age of promiscuity" published in 1996 by Brad Gooch that mentions Tava von Will (the guy who plays Jesus) at some point and makes a reference to the movie HIM. It sounds like Gooch might have watched the movie.
"Tava made an eight-millimeter movie of himself as Christ on the cross, without a loincloth"
The book is available through the Internet Archive through borrowing, if anyone's interested to read it.
I've contacted Mr. Gooch and he didn't see the movie
HIM was actually one of the first lost media cases I ever heard about. If you told me fifteen years ago that we'd still not have a single frame of footage... okay, I probably wouldn't be surprised, it kind of always had this air of "gone forever" to me anyway