About The Organisation of this Archive

Royale Studio - Corporal Punishment (from The Arrest, ERTR-1)

The mitchmen Royale Studio Open Archive is presently under construction and housed in a Google Drive folder belonging to the mitchmen blog. Anyone can access it using the link below.

mitchmen Royale Studio Open Archive

In the mitchmen Royale Studio Archive, the pictures produced by Royale, Hussar and Dolphin Studios are grouped mainly by Model Name or by Storyette (or Playlet as they were later called by Hussar). There are also a few themed Collections of miscellaneous photos which I cannot assign to either of these groups.  

The Drive database is supplemented by two blogs: 

1. The Royale Studio Gallery blog has articles which present most or all of the images in each set with comments and information about the background to the storyettes and models who appear in them. Many of the pictures have been AI-enhanced for presentation purposes but the originals can be found in the Archive folders. The Gallery has a variety of display options* that, for example, show thumbnails of the articles for visual selection.  You can access these formats through the tab at the extreme left of the top bar which defaults to 'Magazine'. 

*Sorry, but this 'dynamic' feature doesn't seem to be available on my iPhone 
but it works on my PC and android tablet.

2. This blog, The Royale Studio blog, contains articles about the history of Royale, Basil Clavering, the man who set it up and how they operated. Also in the right hand column there's a handy index of Royale Storyettes and Models which provides direct links to articles of interest in the Gallery blog.

(There are more articles at the mitchmen blog, which is where this project started. These will gradually be transferred to this blog but in the meantime I will create temporary linking posts here to simplify access. Ultimately the mitchmen articles will be recast as trailers pointing to this dedicated blog.)

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I have tried to assign Royale's original names to each storyette but it's not possible to identify them in every case. Where storyettes circulate under other names I usually point this out in the blog article relating to it. Some stories were given acronyms by Royale e.g. Navy Gash = NAGA. Sometimes the names of the models were used for identification (e.g. ERTR in the picture above which stands for Eric and Trevor/Trefor). I quote these acronyms in the Archive folder name and in the filename where appropriate.

The Storyettes and Collections have been numbered by me in no particular order, purely for convenience in identifying them and naming the files which belong to them and do not represent any sort of sequence. Thus Royale 02 - Navy Romeo is abbreviated to R02 in the file names of pictures, which have the form 'R02-picture sequence number-title'. 

I have not separated out the sets by studio names. Hussar seems to have eventually superseded both Royale and Dolphin  but I am still trying to establish how or why they were differentiated by Royale (see article on Studio names and timelines). I have retained their original attributions where I know them but some were published under both names at different times. I am trying to date the stories where I can but there don't seem to be many reliable sources and I doubt that I will ever be able to justify reorganising them into date sequence.