As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set ...

Trigger Warning: The following references sexual assault. Generally speaking, if films released between 1934 and 1968 were a flavor, they'd be vanilla, or outright flavorless altogether thanks in ...

Before the MPAA rating system that assigns movies age-based ratings like PG or R that viewers see today, the U.S. had a different, more conservative system: the Hays Code. In response to concerns over ...

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Bruce Goldstein loves movies from the Pre-Code Era. Give him 30 minutes, and he’ll give you the entire history of it. As the founding director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum (as ...

The DVD set Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 consists of five pre-Hays Code movies: The Divorcee, A Free Soul, Night Nurse, Three on a... A Second Serving of 'Forbidden Hollywood' The DVD set ...

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...