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Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry after the introduction of sound in the early 1920s [1] and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934.
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.
Anti-film censorship cartoon published in The Film Mercury magazine, circa 1926. Public outcry over perceived immorality in Hollywood and the movies, as well as the growing number of city and state censorship boards, led the movie studios to fear that federal regulations were not far off; so they created, in 1922, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the ...
Many New York City theaters didn't show the film "Reagan" -- about Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States and conservative icon who won re-election in a 1984 landslide carrying 49 ...
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Hollywood A-listers Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton and Renée Zellweger are hoping to make Texas "the new Hollywood.". The stars united for a new ad from ...
Thou Shalt Not, a 1940 photo by Whitey Schafer deliberately subverting some of the Code's strictures. In the 1920s, Hollywood was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic and political organizations.
Hollywood Burlesque, an exploitation film featuring a filmed performance from the Hollywood Theater, San Diego. [31] Just a Big Simple Girl , a French import condemned as "totally lacking in moral compensation". [32] Rozina, the Love Child, a Czech import. [33] The Story of Bob and Sally, an exploitation film. [10] The Wench , a French import.