Video Art Holland - History

History

The predecessor of Video Art Holland is Chick, a contact magazine issued in the Netherlands in late 1960s. Later the same enterprise also began to publish the pornographic magazine Chick Extreme. Their greatest success was with the magazine Seventeen that was begun to be published in 1975. Its name was reflecting the fact that the preferred models for the magazine were at seventeen years of age or sixteen at youngest. However, as it featured models who were minors as per the legislation of many countries, Seventeen faced difficulty in worldwide distribution. For example, in the United States, Seventeen materials were prohibited. Seventeen also began to issue other magazines in later years, including Teeners from Holland and Seventeen Special. In 1986 Seventeen also started to produce videos. Seventeen preferred an amateur flair to the pro-am preference of many pornography producers. Often, male performers were real-life boyfriends of models.

By the 1990s, Seventeen changed its name to Club Seventeen, an umbrella label for most series. Also, they united various assets that functioned under companies such as Profil and Scala and formed the company Video Art Holland. In the late 90s, they initiated a process of change, featuring only models over 18 years of age, because they were informed, that the Netherlands were forced to raise the age to 18, because of a European law "harmonization".

Silvia Saint started her career at 18 at Seventeen, they had other stars too: Tiffany Walker and promoting their own star Estonian Kristina Bellanova, creating series exclusively with Russian models like Russian Teens, Russian Delights, Once Upon A Time.