No New York film lab would print Flaming Creatures when it was made

Evidence

In a subsequent column, Mekas noted that no New York City film lab would print Flaming Creatures, although he was soon to find one: Criterion, a midtown lab eventually busted for porn in 1977. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Illegality/infrastructure refusal is a material barrier — the underground’s outlaw status shaping production possibilities, core to the reader’s ‘conditions’ thesis.
• QUESTION: Interesting echo: the lab that printed the underground’s masterwork later busted for porn — worth chasing how censorship boundaries shifted between 1962 and 1977.