For those who were not born when this came out, here is the 6 page "Drench In" article from a late 50's magazine which provides interesting reading and proves that wetlook fans existed 60+ years ago. It features photos from the legendary 1950's "RVAL" 8mm wetlook home movies (they were called stag films back in those days).
1990s Wetlook News founder "wetfan" sent me his 8mm film reels from the 1950's and I had those digitized and converted to video.