Sabrina (Norma Sykes) isn’t Big Enough to Keep me Waiting
One was a busty blonde, not very experienced. He [Harrison Marks] arranged a photographic session with her for 10.30 the following morning. The appointed time came and went — with no sign of the girl.
By 11.30 the day’s schedule was ruined, an hour behind, and the girl had still not arrived.
Then, at 11.40, she turned up, tousled and unready.
Punctuality is one of Marks’s sternest rules. So he told his secretary to give the girl her fee and tell her her services were no longer required.
Her name in the appointment book was Norma Sykes.
But the world now knows her as Sabrina. Harrison Marks’s world is an expensive one.
He has gone into moving pictures, and his latest film cost him £30,000. But he could make much more money—if he was prepared to go “blue.” He has had fantastic offers to produce pornographic films for people who run a worldwide distribution network of this filth. “It’s amazing the offers you get,” he said. “Not so long ago, two men approached me. I know they own a chain of West End bookshops—all, I imagine, with a back-room store of filth of all types.
“They wanted me to turn out short ‘blue’ films of a high standard. The stuff they were able to get was pretty ropey apparently, most of it reproduced too many times from one original negative. They actually wanted me to make a series for them in colour. “They offered me £500 a negative, one film a week for a year. That’s a lot of money, but I wouldn’t touch stuff like that for anything.”
There are also scores of people who mistakenly think that Marks supplies “kinky” and deviationist material. He receives a dozen letters a week from would-be clients who want something “special.” “Many ask for their requirements right out,” he said. “Usually for `kinky’ clothes or flagellation scenes, sometimes for even weirder pictures. I just ignore these letters, but it doesn’t stop them arriving… I think a lot of these sick people get pleasure from merely putting their requests on paper.” Though he is violently opposed to pornography, Marks has strong views about censorship in Britain. “In Denmark, and in France till recently,” he said, “you can get a definite ruling on a picture or film before you publish it.
“That’s what we need here—a set standard to adhere to. It is essential for all concerned—the public, the publisher and the police.”
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