Sally's First Lesson

‘Sally’s First Lesson’ is a 59-minute movie released by Blushes probably very early in 1983.  An announcement in Blushes issue 4 (above) reads in part “This second hour-long movie from Blushes …” which confirms reports I’ve seen on the web that ‘Sally’s First Lesson’ is the second Blushes movie.  That issue of Blushes also included a follow up story “Sally: Further Lessons” but this was never made into a movie.  To the best of my knowledge ‘Sally’s First Lesson’ is not currently available for purchase.  There is ample evidence that ‘Sally’s First Lesson’ was released by CalStar but I can’t find it on any of the CalStar Direct video-on-demand sites although a number of other Blushes movies are available.  Three clips, comprising about half of the movie, are available on www.clips4sale.com and the full movie does regularly appear on some of the video spanking boards but seldom under its own name (it drives me crazy when movies are posted under some meaningless file name but I can understand why it is done).

‘Sally’s First Lesson’ opens with a red city bus pulling up to a bus stop where Sally Clarke gets off and walks across the street into an empty office.  She starts up the stairs to the sounds of a woman crying.  She knocks on a door and enters a room where a school master, played by an actor who also appears in the Blushes’ movie ‘Big Girls Do Cry’, is in the process of caning the bare bottom of another student (Angela, although I only know that from the videotape box) who is bent over a desk.  The school master tells Sally to wait in another room and he returns to the caning.  After several more strokes he has Angela stand with her hands on her head while he removes her skirt then he tells her to bend back over the desk and her caning continues.  Three more strokes then he tells her to stand and he has her remove her blouse.  A dozen more strokes follow and then her panties come completely off.  A dozen more strokes follow before he has her turn to face him again and hold out her hand.  He gives her a few strokes, and a flinch earns her a couple more, before sending her to wait in an adjoining room.  This sequence last until the 12-minute mark of the movie.

Sally has been listening to all of this through the door.  The school master calls her back into the main room and has her sit at the desk he has been using for the caning.  He tells her that she has been sent to him because she has failed several courses and his job is to help her improve her performance by ensuring that she learns to concentrate on her work.  It’s clear from her expression that she understands what this means.  He starts by asking her name and she replies ‘My name is Sally Clarke’.  He tells her that she made three errors in her response.  First, he wants her to call him Sir.  Second, he wants her to stand when she replies to him.  Finally, to remind her of the importance of a certain part of her anatomy to his process, he wants her to pull down her panties whenever she answers him.  He has her sit down and he asks his question again.  This time she stands before answering, and she addresses him as Sir but she makes one mistake so he has her pull her panties down.  He warns her that any further mistakes will require corrective action.  Another question, another mistake and this time she is over the desk for a hand spanking.

The rest of the movie consists of Sally being questioned and then being bent over the desk with panties down for a hand spanking.  She constantly fails to answers his questions and matters slowly escalate.  Her fondles her bottom at every opportunity.  She must face him, skirt up and panties down, while he lectures her on various topics. It becomes apparent that the Master has complete control and he is tormenting Sally just because he can.  With time, he has her over his knee rather than over the desk and, eventually she is standing against the wall.  Another question, another failure and this time he orders her to partially undress and kneel on the chair while he picks up the cane.  He gives her about 3 dozen strokes of the cane but I found the caning disappointing because of the cramped set and poor camera positions.  After the caning, he has her dress and she leaves.  Once she’s gone, he turns his attention back to the naked blonde who has been waiting in the next room.

 

Time has not been kind to this movie.  It was made in 1982 but I don’t think it was digitized until about 2006.  By that time the tape was badly degraded.  The audio is very poor through most of the movie, the video looks faded and there is interference along the top and bottom of the frame.  The box for the original video tape release (above) shows much sharper and crisper images which are probably closer to the original look than the digitized version of the surviving tapes.  But there are other problems.  Unlike ‘Half Term Punishments’, which had a large cast (8) and an expansive set, ‘Sally’s First Lesson’ has a small cast and most of it is set in one cramped room.  It seems claustrophobic and it suffers because of that.  I also found this movie repetitious and I kept thinking of the lost opportunities.  I’m glad I was able to find ‘Sally’s First Lesson’ and watch it but I was disappointed and I kept thinking of how much better it could have been.