The Blue Print ad with the ridiculous prices showed up again last night on Facebook. They show the front of the BP building and are using lots of BP pictures for what they call a warehouse clearance.
What is the origin of the term ‘blue movie’ to mean porn film? Were there for example ‘blue photos’ before film? The usage of ‘blue’ for nasty, lewd, deviant, seems to go back at least as far back as 1900, which suggests it could have been (but not necessarily) used to describe pornographic photos. But when did it start?
This is in reference to a 'blue movie', a euphemistic term for a pornographic film. It has since been toned down somewhat and phrases like a bit of blue can be used to say that something is 'adult' in nature. Often this includes dealing with sexual material but doesn't necessarily mean visually pornographic; a comedian who tells jokes with a sexual theme could be called 'a bit blue'. going a ...
3 In the early days of movies the monochrome film they used was notoriously sensitive to the blue end of the spectrum, including ultraviolet, to such an extent that clouds in the sky didn't show on the film at all. As skin tones are at the red end of the spectrum humans appeared darker than was natural, and uneven skin tones looked dirty.
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