Adam Black Video Directory # 1 Number 1 Magazine Back Issue

5 Performers
55 Reviews
82 Best Of The Rest
122 70's & 80's
125 Award Winners
127 Mail Order Sources

EDITORIAL
The first edition of the Adam Black Video Directory was a monumental and exhilarating task. We went back to the early days of covering black and interracial product from our sister magazine, Adam Film World and its annual publication, the Adam Film World Directory of Adult Films as well as recent editions of Adam Black Video Illustrated to assemble the bek and most popular examples of movies in this genre.
There is a rich history of videos and performers that largely get ignored by the mainstream hardcore press and we felt it was time to give this genre its due. There are more black and interracial videos and performers in the X-rated industry than ever. Demand has increased to the point where there are hundreds of releases annually and more on the way. The public is demanding more adult movies with people of color. Gone are the days when these movies were an oddity. Now, it's typical to see performers of color turn up in just about every adult video made. In addition, there is an increased demand for more and more quality product in this area, which is why we felt it important to document this booming industry within an industry.
The Performers Directory inchicles profiles of major performers and their best credits. We are proud to say this section is truly a book within a book. We have focused on more than 50 full bios of stars, concentrating on current favorites, plus a few all-time greats.
We proudly state our case for being the one source of ethics and integrity in adult video review commentary. That is why this book will become the bible on black and interracial adult film criticism. While we acknowledge that movie criticism is a subjective medium, our acceptance by the consumers proves we know whereof we speak. There are all new 'full reviews of 100 top adult movies in the main Reviews section, plus more than 325 encapsulated reviews of older and highly rated movies we have reviewed in the past years in The Best of The Rest section. We have also included a section titled "The 70s and 80s" to single out the few but worthwhile titles that are still available from days gone by.
In the Awards section, we pick the Top 20 movies of all time as well as the Top 10 series. We also mention .prize-winning movies, performers and Hall of Fame films and members are identified.
The movies have been picked for a number of reasons, the obvious one being they are, in our opinion, excellent examples of erotic entertainment. Others have been included for their historical significance, and many for a variety of special features they contain. Many older titles, lower rated movies and features out of circulation have been eliminated.

The emphasis of this Directory is on feature movies in the black and interracial genre for their general appeal as well as the erotic factor. Of course, the movies differ in degree of effectiveness, so our ratings guide is based on two essential elements.
Eroticism is graded as Warm, Hot, or Volcanic. A movie that be highly rated for technical and professional reasons may still receive a Warm rating. On the other hand, a picture that is not very good for technical reasons may be Volcanic in its sexual intensity and delivery. We hope that singling out both aspects of a production will help you shape your erotic viewing choices.

The following legend is a brief breakdown of our star ratings:
***** A time-tested classic that no collector should be without. As of this date, no black and interracial titles have earned that honor, though we're still hoping.
**** An excellent picture, combining good production with superbly crafted sex.
*** A very good, highly entertaining product.
** An otherwise good erotic movie that has several major flaws.
* Not a very good show, but it may have some appeal because of subject matter.

The Source Directory is a full listing of companies by the products or services they provide. This section will greatly help those interested in building their own movie libraries as well as finding a local and/or reliable source for erotic entertainment.
The most complete, legitimate and widely respected directory of this nature ever published, as well as the only one, the Adam Black Video Directory is designed to give you full access to the ever-expanding black and interracial adult movie industry.

• Covergirl Heather Hunter
• 500 Classic Video Hits
• Interracial Action
• Anna Amore
• Best 100 New Adult Videos

Adam Film World (AFW) and Adam Film World Guide (AFWG) were American magazines about pornographic film, starting in 1966 as The Adam Film Quarterly. Knight Publishing Corp. had launched Adam magazine in 1956 as an attempt to follow Playboy's success. Adam Film Quarterly was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry. The first issue's cover price was US$1 and the cover story was about The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill, an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth. Originally, like Playboy, the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars such as Orson Welles or Judy Garland. However, by 1969 it was renamed Adam Film World and issued monthly. The Internet Adult Film Database owes its start to Peter Van Aarle, who began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World starting in 1982. Adam Film World was called "one of the industry's leading trade publications" in 1994 by the Associated Press. In his 2001 book Pornography and Sexual Representation, Joseph Slade states, "Extremely valuable are the reports, reviews and gossip of Adam Film World and Adult Video Guide, the oldest American monthly devoted to explicit cinema and generally more reliable than similar magazines, though the information on actors and actresses should be approached with caution. Best described as a fan magazine, Adam Film World hypes the careers of performers for a credulous audience, but partly for that reason it is unparalleled as a guide to the mores and customs of the porn subculture." Slade pointed out that the magazine's interviews with performers were, to an extent, similar to celebrity interviews in popular mainstream magazines: "Actors and actresses usually begin by talking about their parents, their adolescence, their own children, lovers, the importance of grooming, then move on to discussions of augmented breasts, relative penis sizes, favorite costars and directors, referred techniques of oral, vaginal, or anal sex, striptease dancing on tour as a sideline and—most important—their fan clubs or their 900-telephone numbers." The publication is also notable for having issued the first movie awards for excellence in pornographic film, first with the X-Caliber Awards in 1975, then replacing them with the AFWG awards starting in 1981 when its sister publication, Adam Film World Guide, was launched. Today the role of adult film awards has been mostly supplanted by Adult Video News, with its AVN Awards, which launched a decade later. Adam Film World Guide, in turn, spawned an annual Directory of Adult Films starting in 1984. The annuals were "important directories of...hard-core films and videos of the previous eighteen months, with lists of notable films of the past, capsule reviews that rate eroticism from 'warm' to 'volcanic,' addresses of distributors and retail outlets, brief biographies of actors, directors, and producers and indexes by theme, director, and performer." Edward S. Sullivan was the first editor of Adam Film World, followed briefly in 1984 by John Zeus, while former pornographic film actor Tim Connelly was editor, under the name Jeremy Stone, from 1985 to 2003. Connelly, as Stone, was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in the Fifth Estate category in 1998. Knight Publishing eventually expanded to add several other magazine titles such as Adam Black Video Illustrated, Adam Gay Video, and Cinema X Monthly and several others, but Adam Film World remained the flagship of the group until it was discontinued in the late 1990s in favour of Adam Film World Guide. By 2008, owner Bentley Morriss put the company up for sale. When a buyer was not found, the magazine empire folded. The Adam Film World annual X-Caliber Awards based their selection of winners "largely on the votes of readers who are members of the audiences of the adult theaters." although after the popular vote is counted, "an editorial panel makes the final selections". The winners were announced annually starting with the August 1976 issue for films released the previous year. By the second year, the Z-Caliber Awards, for the worst movies, were also introduced.