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Some of the short films, like Spinach Fer Britain, Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue, and Wigwam Whoopee, were seen on the anthology series The Popeye Show on Adult Swim in the early 2000s. [14] One of them briefly appeared on Boomerang before being removed for its potentially offensive stereotyping and sexualization in the background. G Men: 1935 1935
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.
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 ...
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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.
The location has gotten the Hollywood treatment twice: Not only was it featured as the CD Bar in the Chuck Norris-starring Walker, Texas Ranger, but it also doubled as Pearl’s Dance Hall in 1883 ...
More than 1,000 horror films — from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to “Friday the 13th” — have been made in the Lone Star State. Texas is terrifying. Hollywood has noticed.
Some films are not listed here in order to keep this list to a manageable size. These include films that were released before 1930 (see Category:Films by year for pre-1930 films) and works of the United States government. Films released under a free license such as Creative Commons are also excluded.