Dr Smith (Film 911)

Brody is visiting Dr Smith when he starts to feel a pain in his chest.
Smith is quickly onto it, undoing Brody's shirt to check him over.

 

In no time at all, he has Brodie on his table, stripped to his underwear.

He is ventilated and all sorts of cables are attached to his upper body. 

Brody is reassured, they look like sensors, but they are not.....

 

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Tuco is a petty criminal, he knows what the cables do.

He was sent to Dr Smith by the local correctional facility to participate in 'experiments'.

Tuco was surprised when he was immediately ordered to strip down to his underpants.

 

He was even more surprised when the Doctor bolted him to a post by the neck. 

They didn't do that to him in the jail he had come from.

 

After that, the Doctor attached lots of those coloured cables to Tuco's torso.

Then he flicked a switch and immediately, Tuco was bombarded by electric shocks. 

The Doctor just stood and watched him.

Then he moved in, wanting the feel of the effects of treatment, hands on.

 

 

 Tuco told him it hurt, but he passed out before the experiment was ended.

When he came to, he was strapped to a gurney. 

And the Doctor was reattaching the electrodes........

 Tuco was so relieved when they sent him back to prison

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This is the wacky, weird and decidedly sinister world of Dr Smith at Film 911.
He has an understandable interest in men and getting them out of their kit,

and uses a wide range of techniques for accomplishing that objective.

Drug injection, knockout drops and the like - plus hypnosis, sometimes deception.

After that it's gets strange, very strange, in many different ways. 

And no-one really knows what is real or imaginary

Except Dr Smith

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Damon just came in as a model to do a shoot, he was great at simulating shocks.

But then he had an asthma attack or thought he did, fiction and reality blur so easily!.  

 

 

 

Damon looses consciousness, but the Doctor stays with him, giving comfort.
Anticipating further problems, he undresses him (as you do)

Then he attaches ECG electrodes as a precaution - and to pass the time.

 

 

With Damon still unconscious, the Doc drags him to the bedroom.

It's a route that many men follow without knowing it, after meeting Dr Smith 

There those nasty cables bring Damon back to consciousness, 

But there's a plug in his mouth, it restricts his breathing, but he can't spit it out.

This precipitates another asthma crisis.

 

 

 

Damon struggles but finds he is strapped down on the bed

He is under electrical attack and struggling to breathe

But the Doctor stays calm and delves into his underwear. 

Just checking his pulse, I suppose.

 

Damon's crisis grow worse, he may even be 'going',

so the Doctor brings out his defibrillator, just in case.

Predictably, he has to use it and Damon responds dramatically.

But it's not really clear by then what the Doctor is trying to do.

 

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Nathan is a private detective who tries to find out what's going on at the Docs.

He gains entry to the Doctor's premises, but is caught by the surveillance system.

A specially designed, loud alarm has the effect of knocking him out.

 

 

 

Nathan too ends up in his underpants and strapped down on the gurney.

The Doctor administers discomfort to him via his air supply.

It's partly a punishment for his intrusion, and partly a tongue loosener,

but mainly to further his fascination with breath control.

  

It isn't long before the Doc decides he needs to apply the defibrillator.

It's very clear from Nathan's response that it's not really needed.

In the sinister world of Dr Smith at Film 911

It isn't just a matter of pain but life itself.

But there's more to him than cardiac arrests, more next time

Under The Lash

The Wooden Horse

 

An illustration from 'Under The Lash', a book about corporal punishment in the UK armed forces in years gone by. This punishment device was called 'The Wooden Horse', but effectively was a narrow or pointed board on which the offender was compelled to sit for long periods. It was not only painful, but ultimately could be medically damaging, so don't try it at home chaps. The idea has now become part of the vocabulary of S&M and is documented extensively here at mitchmen through the series called 'Riding The Wedge'. Contributions include various artists interpretations of the ordeal and some real life attempts to recreate it (sanely). Click on the link or the label at the foot of the post to see them all.

The author of  'Under the Lash' was Basil Clavering, the creator behind the famed Royale and Hussar Studios in the 1950s and 60s. He was assisted (improbably) by another luminary of that era, John Barrington, who helped to edit the book for publication. The book describes a range of military punishments in excruciating detail, and there are a number of illustrations like that above. Clavering actually recreated some of these arcane practices in his storyettes which are still treasured for their spanking and CP content. There's an illustrated review of the book and its Royale legacy at the Royale blog.

 

See Under the Lash reviewed at the mitchmen Royale Studio blog