When Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild first moved from photographs to films, most of the models were still wearing posing pouches. One of the AGM's first films to show full frontal nudity was 1967's White Captive. In the short, Jim Horn appeared along side bodybuilder Bill Grant who was both Mr. World and 1974's Mr. America.
AGM didn't feature many men of color, and when they did they were often photographed or filmed depicting various racial stereotypes. White Captive is no exception with Grant playing a tribal king who has a captured Horn brought in for inspection. Although the film is racially rooted, it also in a way reverses them. Horn is the captive and Grant is a gentle king who is most interested in just enjoying Horn's company.
After having Horn's loin cloth removed, he oil's up the king and they sort of innocently begin posing together. Grant was, and still is, a legendary bodybuilder, who came up the ranks around the same time as Arnold Schwarzenegger, so keeping the focus on fitness, erotic fitness of course, I'm sure was key. Grant describes himself as a scrawny kid who started working out in his early teens to put some meat on his bones. He made some significant gains and began competing professionally before he turned 20.
I've included a brief couple of minutes of the film below, but you can check out the entire film on My Muscle Video HERE:
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