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Jim French continued to run the company untilwhen former Falcon Studios director John Rutherford and his business partner Tom Settle purchased the Colt name and rebranded the company the Colt Studio Group. On December 1,Jim French and Lou Thomas discussed starting their own studio together and on December 5,the pair took out a business license to form Colt Studio.

Colt Studio Group is an American independent pornography company. The first several years of the studio saw Colt sticking to the model of releasing French's illustrations under the Rip Colt name, photo sets featuring masculine male models, and eventually 8mm short films, magazines and calendars.

Oliveira, November All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. French quickly became suspicious of Stollman's failure to handle the business end of the studio, however, and hired his colt Lou Thomas on August 8, to look into the business side.

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The company was famed not only for its stable of male models, but for its long-running magazine brands which included Manpower, Colt Men, Spurs, and Colt Studio Presents, as well as its calendars. Request items. [2][3].

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For a few years after his sale of the company, French continued to privately sell salon prints of his photographs, but he has since settled into a quiet retirement. The Colt Studio Group continues to feature much of French's work on their website, but the company's focus now is more on creating hardcore homoerotic video content.

Colt sold photosets, magazines, and a wide variety of branded merchandise through the mail, Watch the exclusive muscular men in all-male erotica and hardcore videos on © by COLT Studio Group all rights reserved. Stollman would make a final buyout payment to French in Februarybut carried on briefly on his own, featuring at least one illustration photo set by himself and a few photographs and 8mm films created by other substandard producers.

For the Colt venture, French assumed the new colt Rip Colt, with the Rip portion of the name being inspired by the physique photographer Rip Searby. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art from to with an eye towards a career in fashion illustration along the lines of J.

Following college, he enlisted in the Army, serving for two years and earning an honorable discharge. Colt has produced gay pornography since [1] Colt started in New York City, moved to Los Angeles for 25 years, and is now based in San Francisco, California.

Concurrent with this change, French bought out Lou Thomas' share in the company, freeing Thomas to branch out on his own and form Target Studios. Colt photographed some of the most famous gay stars of the pre-AIDS era, including Bruno and Al Parker.

In his spare time, French began creating romantic homoerotic illustrations under the pseudonym Arion, largely in the period from In mid, French was approached by an old Army friend Gay Stollman, who was aware of French's Arion drawings, to create a physique studio, again operated out of New York City.

With photography quickly taking the place of fashion illustration advertising, French became a freelance advertising illustrator. Skip to main content Skip to search. For this business venture, French adopted a new pseudonym Kurt Luger, and his new illustrations exhibited a more masculine aesthetic, featuring cowboys, leathermen, wrestlers and other similar archetypes.

The illustrations French produced in this time were largely based on Polaroid reference photos he took of male nude models, and this led him to also venture into photography. French was born on July 14,and quickly developed a taste for the fine arts.

Colt Studio would eventually grow into one of the most successful gay erotic photography studios of its time.