![]() ![]() ![]() Some phony-baloney footage of people in a pretend-African hut plus stock footage is inserted in basically a replay of the sexual positions demonstrated in Miller & Cimber's previous Man and Woman and He & She, only this time utilizing black performers. Much is made of debunking the myth of the "black stud" and his threat to white women, but the film itself is largely a case of idiots purporting to be taking a "serious", Margaret Mead-style approach to an American subculture. (Ironically, today's internet-dominated XXX market has generally jettisoned story lines, coming back full circle to 1970-level content.) The audience is treated to a double insult here, as the "hip" host/narrator plus the opening credit crawl is disgustingly condescending to African-Americans (and Black Africans as well). ![]() Miller cashed in while the getting was good with a series of fake documentaries now classified as "white-coaters", which within 2 years were driven out of the marketplace by porn films with a storyline. Made by Matt Cimber's producer partner Marvin Miller but attributed to Cimber in IMDb, "Black Is Beautiful" is one of the lucrative explicit-sex films marketed alongside Scandinavian imports during a brief window when Supreme Court decisions (notably the Quiet Days in Clichy and I Am Curious (Yellow) cases) first opened the floodgates that now have led to hardcore porn's dominant place in our culture. ![]()
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