Tall Models, Inc. Review by Wilfred D. DeVoe, video by BuiltMore Productions /-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/ /=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/ /-\=/-\ \=/-\=/ /=\-/=\ A CRITIC'S CRITIQUE \-/=\-/ /-\=/-\ My Evaluation of BuiltMore Productions' TALL MODELS, INC. \=/-\=/ /=\-/=\ by Wilfred D. DeVoe \-/=\-/ /-\=/-\ \=/-\=/ /=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/=\-/ /-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/-\=/ Tall Models, Inc. (#1?), copyright (c) 1997 by BuiltMore Productions Reviewed 5/05/1997 The people at BuiltMore Productions are apparently inaugurating a new series of videotapes, perhaps a sister series to the Amazon Supermod-els tapes. Something that bears investigating, I thought, so here are my thoughts on it. BuiltMore Productions has been around for years, but only in 1996 has made its presence known on the Internet. The company now has its own Web site, http://www.builtmore.com B.M.P. deals almost exclusively in special-interest videotapes, in- cluding amazon warrior tapes, comic book heroine type adventures, women weightlifter/bodybuilder tapes, and the line that really interests me, the Amazon Supermodels series, which focuses on the allure of very tall women. For its Amazon Supermodels series, BuiltMore has had a firm policy of having models no less than six feet tall. In this alternate tape, the policy is somewhat loosened; women can be 5'10" and up, the same standard used by most chapters of Tall Clubs International for female members. That may be due to the scarcity of very tall women. B.M.P. had turned down many otherwise wonderful women because though tall at 5'10" or 5'11" they just didn't measure up. Now these women will get a chance to be seen. Models under 5'10" may appear in supporting roles. As a title, "Tall Models" sounds generic and straightforward enough to get my attention, but is unfortunately misleading. The tape is dedi- cated to strong women, athletic women, women who can and do dominate men. That's not what I look for, and that's mostly what I find on the market. Some of the things out there are rather horrid (can you say, "Giantess crush and stomp"?). "Tall Models, Inc." is very benign by contrast, but my love of tall women lies in their abundance; power issues are irrelev-ant for me. I would recommend that B.M.P. change the name to something like "Tall, Powerful Women, Inc." Caveat emptor -- buyer beware. The first thing I notice -- okay, the second thing I notice -- is that the FBI copyright warning fills the screen and is clearly readable. (In some of the Amazon Supermodels tapes the smaller print is fuzzy and illegible.) The FIRST thing I notice is the opening sound -- not the sophisticated music of other tapes, but the sound of women laughing and playing. It almost suggests a TV documentary kind of effect. The third thing I notice (isn't this repetitious?) is the supplemen-tal warning, "If you duplicate this tape illegally, Bad Karma will catch up with you." Right. I wonder where they got THAT idea? Jai Guru Dev. Produced by "Nercy"? No last name? As though Jackie, Robey, Camer-on, and Roseanne aren't enough, we have to have another one-name wonder? Video by "Notorious S.M.O."? Haw haw haw! No Comment. Haw haw! Okay, down to business. First up is a sequence with 5'11" Rose Ad- kins, 6'0" Susan McGee, and 4'4" (!!) Brian Kline (who is anonymous in this tape). Holy shit! The Hulk has a kid brother! Wouldja look at the muskools on this guy? And his head just comes up to the women's, uh, well, you know. (Blush) We see the diminutive dude and his high- rise honeys walking about town, he bare-chested in his boxers (in Saudi Arabia that's called "pornography") and they in their tight, uh, well, uh, what-ever they are, they leave the women's legs exposed to good advantage. He's wider than they are, but you can see well-defined, strong muscula-tures on the women, too. I think passers-by can hardly believe what they're seeing. One guy says, "Some guys have ALL the luck! He's got all o' that AND a bag of chips!" I heard someone mumbling those words to him before that, though, so I can tell he was put up to it. Fake! This scene conjures up images in my mind of visiting another world where the females are nine feet tall. Oh, my poor neck! Before long Brian is holding their hands. Who's leading? They're talking, but I can't make out their conversation. Uh-oh, now I'm noticing them. What the women are wearing on their feet. It's the dreaded clear plastic fetish shoes! Aaghh!! Not much action, just the guy and gals walking down the sidewalk, and later posing with some muscle flexing. Having interviewed one of the producers of this tape, I learned some things that might interest followers of the BuiltMore product lines, so please allow me to interject. B.M.P. is trying to give its more vocal customers what they've been asking for: height comparisons with shorter men and women, muscle domination themes, e.g. wrestling, "lifts and car-ries," and possibly, strong language. The principal producer is not in-volved with muscle and dominance himself, but his customers call for these, and for HEIGHT COMPARISONS. He's a member in good standing of Tall Clubs International, and values that status. The format of B.M.P. tapes requires no nudity. The original idea was to produce videos for general audiences. The videotape makers jokingly consider themselves geriatric film students, wanting to prepare homemade movies. One producer enjoyed soc- ializing with beautiful, tall women, and wanted to project his interest as an art form; his medium happened to be video. He was pleasantly sur- prised to discover the amount of interest in his tapes. Next up is 6'2" Heather Anderson, accompanied by 5'5" Rose (not the one mentioned above). Heather describes herself in a voice-over, which comes out clearly (some past tapes had acoustic problems). There are odd camera angles, which I don't care for, and a continual focusing on the women's legs. Well, that ought to satisfy the leg fetishists; the legs are rather muscular and tightly toned, too. Hey, what's that on their feet? Not again! More posing; more odd angle shots. Later we see Heather alone, in the studio sequence that appears standard with many B.M.P. video presentations. More odd angles (Notor- ious Samuel M. Oldham must have a fixation on those.). Through it all, though, you get a sense of the grace and stature of this beautiful woman -- the shoulder-length blond hair, the pretty smile, the childlike eyes, the beautiful long legs, the flowing motion. Oh, G-h-od! Isn't she the kind of woman you long for? This tape does without the recorded-over music of other presentations; the studio background noises are intact. Heather sits down and lets us feast on the sight of her beautiful legs. We feast -- and feast -- and feast. Uuunnngh!! She's a nice, big girl. I wish she'd babysit me. Hey, wait a minute! I'm older than she is! With her long, graceful body and her baby face she reminds us how we'd felt when we were 12 years old, looking up at the big girls, longingly. Next is a sequence with 5'11" Rose Adkins again, this time in the studio carrying around 5'8" Barry Adler, who is identified in the opening simply as "friend." She carries him piggy-back, she carries him piggy-shoulders -- I won't go into the gory details; this sort of thing doesn't send me. It's enough to say that fans of this stuff won't be disappoint-ed. At least Barry seems to be having fun. In a nice, clear voice-over Rose describes herself, her work as a personal trainer, her athletic com-petitions, etc. She's pretty, with a rather nice shape, though too small in the bust for my taste. She's later shown alone flexing her muscles, then arm wrestling with Barry. It's such a funny situation to her, she keeps cracking up. He's then shown lifting HER, and they wrestle and play -- oh, that's right, I wasn't going to bore you with the details. Ahem. Another sequence shows Rose in the studio with 6'0" Susan McGee. Susan carries Rose piggy-back, piggy-shoulders, draped over her shoulder, etc. (Susan has an unusual muscular development to her legs. Her thighs look very thick and overdeveloped; her calves look quite modest by con-trast. Pretty face, though.) Then Rose tries lifting Susan. Shortly both women try out some wrestling holds. This wrestling looks more ser-ious than with Barry -- they're both really trying to take each other out. They appear to be having fun, though. The next scenario shows Rose Adkins once again, walking along out- doors with 5'7" Rikki Rife, anonymously called "friend." They're having a conversation the content of which I can't make out. Rikki is a lovely woman, with pretty face, proportionally medium breasts, and slim, muscul-ar figure. She does demonstrate why I prefer taller women, though. At four inches shorter than Rose she is noticeably smaller all over -- nar-rower shoulders, smaller head, narrower hips, shorter limbs, all in prop- ortion. I like such dimensions, but prefer them in abundance. In a lit- tle while we see the women from the back, and get a good look at Rikki's short, short cutoffs. Ooohh, cheeky! Doesn't look like GP rating to me! A couple of guys are seen flirting with them. Fresh. There are more cropped shots showing just the women's calves and feet as they're walking. Well, chacun à son goût. In the next scene Rikki and Rose are dressed more modestly, posing at the rear of a black Hummer truck. They seem to be having an effect on the cameraman; I can hear his breathing. Rikki is small, but strong. In a studio scene she lifts Rose draped over her shoulder. And boy, do her thigh muscles bulge when she does that. Then she lifts Rose in her arms like a groom carry-ing a bride over the threshhold. Ooh, they do make a lovely couple. Then the piggy-shoulders lift, the drape-over-the-shoulders lift, then the same draping lift done by Rose this time (who of course finds it eas- ier to do) -- Am I boring you yet? Rose the groom carrying Rikki the bride, the two women wrestling -- Rikki manages to hold Rose down rather effectively. She's gonna get some fans outta this tape. We get good scenes here of both women's long, strong, muscular legs. Aside: another BuiltMore offering, Amazon Supermodels #5, shows Anne L. and Shaneen Cinema, both 6'3", wrestling playfully. But they are more model-dancer types; Rose, Rikki, and Susan wrestle with more serious energy and power than do Anne and Shaneen. Next up is 6'2" Chandra. Yum!! Nice figure all around, strong, but with soft, feminine curves, not the fibrous, "cut-up," vein-popping look of male weightlifters. After a brief description of herself she goes to lift Pete, who is 5'11". Hey, what's she doing? She's lying down, legs up, with her foot in the guy's crotch, and... and she's lifting him, with one leg, supporting him on her foot in his... oboy -- and she's pumping, lowering her leg, then straightening it out, then down, then up, down, up, -- damn it, there goes the GP rating. This must be blowing the foot fetishists' minds... and a couple other things. Then she continues the process with TWO feet. Yikes! I can just imagine what this will look like on the guy's résumé. And then Tarzan - - uh, Chandra -- lifts him draped over both shoulders from behind, and does a squatting exercise. Outdoors afterward she does the same two- feet-in-the-crotch lifting exer-cise. Now I realize that the original intent of B.M.P. was to make vid-eos for general audiences, and to eschew nudity, but THIS tape, even WITHOUT nudity, is going to leave a few unusual people's pants wet. Ahem. The over-the-shoulder squatting exercise is repeated outdoors. Then indoors for more of the crotch exercise. What can I say? Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha heh, hee hee hee hee hee hee hee... Sheesh! Harumph. Well. All kinky displays aside, I would like to say that Chandra is a very attractive woman, by my standards, based on stature, face, and figure. She looks like the kind of woman I'd enjoy dating. But, it wouldn't bother me if she NEVER lifted me. Fun, but it's not what I look for in a woman. In closing, I'd have to say this is an interesting experiment for B.M.P. Doing without accompanying music and using sound in real time including extraneous background noises gives this tape a raw, uncut qual-ity. And on a small budget a tape was produced that may well satisfy the more vocal fans. In reviews of Amazon Supermodels videotapes I'd made an issue of how the tapes don't really do the tall women's heights justice since, on a TV screen, it's hard to get their heights into perspective; among other ideas I'd suggested that a background scale similar to those used in police lineups might help. Other fans had noticed, too, and their answer has been to demand more height comparisons with other peo-ple. Their other requests, though, focus on POWER issues that are of no interest to me. Through the Internet and through special-interest magazines, B.M.P. has built a specialized customer base. The various powerful-amazon lines of tapes have been the main source of income for B.M.P. The tall- women tapes, though, mostly the Amazon Supermodels line, were intended purely to showcase the appeal of the tall woman, but later tapes in the series were compromised to emphasize powerful women. This is no doubt in answer to the more vocal fans. Not everybody who loves VERY tall women sees his relationship to wo-men as one of power, or worse, of power and punishment. It could very well be that some men as toddlers were seen as very cute, and teen- aged girls and young women, who were giants by comparison, just couldn't keep their hands off the kids, and would hug them and kiss them without mercy. If the kids imprinted on this, then any very tall females would make them feel warm and dizzy, and they would long for the women to embrace them and love them. I believe that such men far outnumber the gluttons for power and punishment. That being the case, I'd suggest that instead of having the all-too-typical fantasy scenario of the big, muscular woman athlete overpowering and humiliating the ordinary or little man, we have the scenario of the ordinary man receiving limitless loving from lofty ladies. Imagine being, say, a rock star who's rushed by a gang of affec-tionate groupies, all of them very tall. Mmmmm! It's like being a choc-olate Easter bunny surrounded by chocoholics. Wow! Over a 3-4-month period (Dec. 1996 - Apr. 1997) I'd collected, sort-ed through, and posted to special-interest news groups pictures of beau-tiful TALL models, mostly Playboy Playmates, with their legs shown to good advantage to emphasize their stature. I posted 178 leggy pictures (not a misprint) of gorgeous models, all of whom appeared in mainstream magazines. Seven of them -- India Allen, Julie Cialini, Marilyn Cole, Donna Edmondson, Stacy Sanches, Anna Nicole Smith, and Shannon Tweed --were Playboy Playmates of the Year, and two -- Dominique Mauré and Julie Strain -- were Penthouse Pets of the Year. That's no small honor for ANY model, and these were all lofty ladies. And how many of the mainstream "Supermodels" -- Elle MacPherson, Amber Smith, et al -- are quite tall? I posted my pictures as a form of protest, to remind people that women can be glamorous AND tall, without power, masculine-looking muscles, nor dominant roles as requisites to sex appeal. And yes, I got numerous E-Mail responses with high praise. I bring out these points to emphasize that a love of beautiful TALL women is already a mainstream phenomenon. 5'8" Barbara Carrera may have considerable appeal, but so do 6'0" Jerri Hall, 6'1" Rachel Williams, and 6'4" Veruschka. B.M.P.'s better tall woman tapes simply celebrate the high end and push the envelope, demonstrating that a love of tall women need not be odd or weird. That's why I post my reviews in over 40 news groups, including conventional girl watchers' groups. And I urge the people at B.M.P. to not restrict their attention to a small hard- core group of amazon lovers, but to promote the tall woman tapes to the much larger, mainstream market, consisting of MANY people who would appreciate a Zrinka, an Allison, a Melissa, or a Merlelynn. And I know from first-hand experience that women such as these would appreciate fans who can express their adulation without weirding out on them. BuiltMore Productions, please take heed. What a doozy this tape is! Anyone wanting to take a chance on it can access an order form at http://www.builtmore.com or via "snail mail," write to BuiltMore Productions Post Office Box 571 Santa Monica, Ca. 90406-0571 and request "Tall Models, Inc." #1.