Royal Marine Stevens - by DaveAlan01
This video is a sample of the AI Art produced by
DaveAlan01. He's trying to visualise how Royale Studio images
might have looked if they were produced now. This example has
the right ingredients - British military uniforms contrasted
with underwear in a disciplinary situation. I think Basil
Clavering would have enjoyed the double underwear joke in this
videoette. In his day it would have ridiculed the restrictions
on depicting nudity rather incisively. In the modern context,
it makes fun of our obsession with it.
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I'm not sure this video would have passed muster in
the 60s, but there's an even funnier and sexier variant at the
artist's site which definitely wouldn't!
View Royale Marine Stevens
- lubed underwear
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Para Tom Taken To The Corrective Training
Centre
by DaveAlan01 |
Basil
Clavering seemed to favour shorts rather than underwear as
punishment kit. I don't know if that was simply because of his
personal taste or the taboo on visible underwear in society as a
whole, which was more aggressively conservative back them.
He
attempted to make sexy, tight shorts out of the baggy,
non-elasticated products which were the only thing available at
the time. His efforts generally resulted in something like the
image above, with an impression of bulk at the front, but a much
tighter fit at the rear. He used clever lighting to hint at
frontal shapes, but they had to be very subtle to escape
censure.
Unfortunately
modern AI seems to be incapable of producing anything sexier
than this and thinks military = medals. It has no understanding
of British uniforms. Nevertheless, the shortness of the escorts'
shorts in the image above is a good simulation of Royale
Studios' take on 'dress' kit, perhaps seen to best advantage in
the Soldier-Sailor storyette.
Clavering
did have a para on his roster - Ron Wiltshire, but he
never photographed the model in his own uniform, only as a Horse Guard in
breeches. I don't think there's a single example of a beret in
his output, but exposure to modern day Royal Marines
might have changed his mind!
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| Bad Lads Army,1961 - by DaveAlan01 |
This disciplinary scenario (snipped from a video) fits the
Royale style too, apart perhaps for the Guards wearing
underwear. I think Clavering would have kept them in a uniform
of some sorts.
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| Para Tom is handed over - by Dave Alan01 |
DaveAlan01
has also produced some police custody scenes. This is a scenario
Clavering never covered, probably because it would have invited
reprisals from the real force. In any case, the Police were so
disliked by gay men in that era, because of the heavy-handed
repression, that it was a perverse individual indeed that would
find them sexually attractive. Clavering
did do a storyette with Military Police which
involved Tibor Urgay undressing in public.
I'm
certain Clavering would have loathed jogging bottoms too, but
the common association (in the UK) with the so-called underclass
and thuggery would have certainly interested him. That
connection makes this 'put in his place' image delicious
indeed.
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Great
stuff! These video scenes make you wonder how Royale's work
would have looked if they had used this medium. Would it have
just looked like all the other modern porn? His amateur models
would have struggled, I suspect. Especially if they had to
speak! AI would have got him off that hook, but AI speech is
very primitive currently, with caricatured American accents.
Let's hope Brits get a look-in soon, but I'm not counting on it.
I'm
looking forward to seeing a naval scenario in this vein, sailors
were Claverings' inspiration and his bread and butter, after
all.
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