Cinema X was a British film magazine best known for its coverage of sexploitation films. Early issues of the magazine were undated, but it is believed the first issue was published in 1969. The first film to grace the cover of Cinema X was Loving Feeling (1969), directed by Norman J. Warren. Other films covered in the first issue were I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967), Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), and Therese and Isabelle (1968). Interviewees in the premiere issue included Norman J Warren, John Trevelyan and Anthony Newley.

Originally “a Cinemonde publication”, the magazine appears to have been envisioned by the company as the British arm of their publishing empire, which already included a similar publication in France (Cinemonde) and in Italy (King Cinemonde). Gerald Kingsland was the magazine’s first editor. Very much born of the permissive climate of the late sixties, the first issue’s editorial stated: “So far the more adult magazines have reserved a few pages for the X cinema … blood and sex are only lightly touched on. Cinema X devotes all its time to the world’s X cinema.”

The founding publishing house of Cinema X was Rosland Productions. From Volume 2 Number 2 the magazine was published by Top Sellers Ltd., based in London.

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