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John Lark |
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1942 |
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John Lark was involved with the adult video industry from it's beginnings. He first entered the adult products business in 1969, around the first censorship changes brought in by Don Chipp (before this Lark worked in fashion wigs production and importation).
He was involved in adult magazine production throughout most of the 1980's, as well owning a chain of adult stores and a company duplicating adult super 8 film and later video. By 1989, his Mature Media Group held half of the entire adult media industry share.
In 1988 Lark started making a series of twenty adult films around Canberra, Sydney and the southern tablelands, called the Down Under series. This was the first time such a series of adult material had been produced in this country.
In addition to his films, Lark set up the Adult Video Industry Association, a lobbying group first set up to combat a move by the then Attorney General, Lionel Bowen, to ban the four year old X category. The AVIA was a permanent industry lobby group until it became part of the Eros Foundation in 1992.
John Lark is a regular contributor to The Adult Industry Review, and works as a consultant. He is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential people in the Australian adult film industry.
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| journal - 'Export Market Development Grant scheme' Parliamentary Debates, Senate (hansard). . p.1984 |
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| book - Laughter and Light - Inside the Australian Sex Industry . 00-00-1997 |
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Phillip Adams,
Fiona Patten
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| A collection of Articles, both written for the book, and from other sources, about the state of the industry. Contains useful stats on the numbers of Austra...[full record]
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| journal - Parliamentary Debates, Senate: Export Market Develpment Grants sceme amendments Hansard [Australia]. 10-05-1990. pp.305 - 340 |
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| The debate and voting on the amendment of the act controling export grants including a speech by Brian Harradine [full record]
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| newspaper - Porn king seeks public export grants Financial Review. 13-10-1989. p.39 |
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Andrew White
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| An article on John Lark's bid to get an Export development grant for his down under series. Also talks about the general state of the adult film industry. ...[full record]
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| newspaper - Stay in Touch The Sydney Morning Herald. 10-02-1998. p.24 |
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Bruce Elder
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| Article about David Haines looking for actors for his follow up to 1997's Buffy Down Under'
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| web - The Sydney Morning Herald : Pornography Associated Theatres Pty Ltd. 28-02-1998 |
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Kendall Hill
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| A brief biography on Haines's career as a censor and adult film producer.
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