Taking advantage of the public domain terrain, KOCH Vision has assembled their own fetish collection, gathering five shorts under the bondage header.

The first two films are non-bondage: "Dance of Passion" is a straight hip-swinging burlesque, set to vintage organ music loop (that's utterly appropriate); and "Bettie Page and Her High Heel Shoes" is the same title found on Cult Epics' own bondage DVD. The remaining titles - "Bettie Page Gets Bound and Kidnapped," "Escape Out of Bondage" and "Second Initiation of the Sorority Girl" - are also on the Cult Epics disc, and like the aforementioned titles on the KOCH release, they have slightly slower speeds approximating more realistic movements.

The KOCH prints aren't that much better than the Cult source materials, although the former's prints are darker, with muddy highlights instead of cleaner greys and whites. Where the KOCH DVD really falters is in its advertised length: billed as a 60 minute DVD, there's a mere five films totaling less than 30 minutes; and equally absurd is the Photo Gallery, which boasts 3 images of Bettie before her formal modeling years. (The company website no longer lists a running time for the DVD.)

With the exception of "Dance of Passion," this particular release offers little of note.

Note: For the sake of easy database searches on this site, “Bettie Page” is the chosen spelling of her name in titles and reviews, although if hunting for the titles via online retailers, you may wish to try “Betty Page” in some instances.

© 2005 Mark R. Hasan