Where is "Penis" (1965)

This was the information sheet from AFI's database which the representative kindly provided in her reply. The second page is blank.

I think we can safely assume he probably didn't do much. We can also probably assume this film didn't make a big splash or it would be better remembered. It was almost certainly an underground independent film considering the lack of promotional material or even any real info floating around today.

For me, the biggest revelations in the AFI database is that this movie originally came out in 1965 as a 45 minute short called Penis and then was re-released in 1967 retitled as 1967 with about 15 minutes of footage cut out! That is a huge piece of info. I've visited the Film-Makers' Cooperative website and since they list 1967 as in their collection, that still means even if they share it we're still missing 15 minutes of footage from the original release.

Also I found it shocking that the Summary section literally says nothing of the precise nature of the film can be determined. This is AFI, and even they couldn't find anything out besides the bare bones, this film is so forgotten.

Im not sure which cinema it premiered at. Maybe if we looked through old newspapers from NY circa 1965 we might see an ad.

I agree that cut footage is probably lost forever, but one can certainly hope.

This is off topic but the title of this thread is perfect for getting the attention of users that would be interested in finding this “film”

I tried searching for the word "penis" between June 1 and July 31 of 1965 on a website that catalogs tons of old New York newspapers, which is not something I expected to spend my Saturday afternoon doing. I got 39 results but unfortunately all I got were mentions of Peru, people named Perry, and other similar looking words since the scanned word recognition isn't perfect.

I'm not sure a sex film, especially one with a title as unsubtle as this, would fly in a newspaper back then.

EDIT: Searching with the director's name brings up an insane amount of results since it finds any newspaper page with the word "Rose" plus the letters "A" and "J" on it. The lowest I can get it is 240 pages, and I'm sure a majority of them will be false positives.

ANOTHER EDIT: "AJ Rose film" managed to bring it down to 31 pages but as expected, none of them were relevant.

Quick update on the post above. I took a look at mention of the film I had, and found results for a Frolic Magazine. While the result I had on the Internet Archive was from 1958, the magazine was actually still in publication in 1965, and lists many films of such nature. Since not all of the issues of Frolic on the IA have the auto-generated text, I'm going to look through and see if I can't come across the film's title in the sale listings.