Edward D Wood, Jr. is one of the more fascinating figures in 20th century pop culture.  Much has been made of his "terrible" filmmaking and "Golden Turkey" award-winning films, but to me, Wood stands as something else beyond these "so-bad-they're-good" bombs.
As both a filmmaker and a popular writer, Wood is certainly an example of an artist whose desire to create and express himself far outreached his abilities to master the craft of either of his chosen fields.  But there, I am drawn to examine the aesthetic value of the career itself... isn't there a beauty, a perfectly human triumph, to be seen in the life of a man so dedicated to expressing his delights (be they the tactile reward of soft angora sweaters and fine ladies underwear against the flesh, or the strenuous imaginative leap necessary to believe in the "reality" of his filmed drama) in the face of the rapidly degrading day-today struggle to survive?  And what of his willingness to embrace the underbelly of Hollywood's broken dream factory, the aging Bela Lugosi, the struggling hack actors and actresses of his"company," the fledgling porn purveyors, to whom he sought acceptance and financial relief?  Here is a man whose belief in the good of humanity and whose love for the American popular culture machine was in and of itself a worthy testament to the power of art and the imagination to elevate life to a higher level... if only in his own drink-soaked mind.

For indeed, his final decade was one of delusion and decline... but what of it?!   By 1965, he was writing text and directing exclusively for adult publishers and producers.  While the list of his books is getting fairly well established, it is in the realm of magazine contributions that the safari still remains wild and wooly.  He wrote extensively for the Pendulum imprints, Gallery Press, CALGA and SECS under his own name and such pseudonyms as Ann Gora and Dick Trent. VINTAGE SLEAZE's contribution to the field of Wood scholarship has been to identify other uncredited magazine contributions, specifically in the Swedish Erotica imprint.  Wood biographer Rudolph Grey mentions that Wood may have directed some early 8mm loops for the Swedish Erotica company, but VS feels Wood also wrote text for the early Swedish Erotica magazines... perhaps up through roughly issue #22-25.

See below for some text reprints from the early SE magazines, especially
SE #10, which features a primer on HOW TO MAKE A HOME MOVIE,
and decide for yourself.

Check out this interesting Ed Wood reminiscence essay

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