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re: Suggestions for a good pre-Code (30's) movie?
Posted on 7/13/14 at 4:43 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 7/13/14 at 4:43 pm to Ace Midnight
What we call the pre code starts in the late silent era, in the early 1920's, before sound pictures.
Themes of these movies included: sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence, and homosexuality.
And as I posted before some actresses wore see through clothing at some point in the movie.
The last of the pre codes are shot in 1933, as the code was adopted in 1930 and it took the Catholic church to get it fully enforced by 1934 production schedules.
The Code:
1.No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2.Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
3.Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.
Specific restrictions were spelled out as "Particular Applications" of these principles:
Nudity and suggestive dances were prohibited.
The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
The depiction of illegal drug use was forbidden, as well as the use of liquor, "when not required by the plot or for proper characterization."
Methods of crime (e.g. safe-cracking, arson, smuggling) were not to be explicitly presented.
References to alleged "sex perversion" (such as homosexuality) and venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth.
The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive.
Murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail.
"Revenge in modern times" was not to be justified.
The sanctity of marriage and the home had to be upheld.
"Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing."
Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as sometimes necessary to the plot, could not be explicit or justified and were not supposed to be presented as an attractive option.
Portrayals of miscegenation were forbidden.
"Scenes of Passion" were not to be introduced when not essential to the plot.
"Excessive and lustful kissing" was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might "stimulate the lower and baser element."
The flag of the United States was to be treated respectfully, and the people and history of other nations were to be presented "fairly."
"Vulgarity", defined as "low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects" must be "subject to the dictates of good taste."
Capital punishment, "third-degree methods", cruelty to children and animals, prostitution and surgical operations were to be handled with similar sensitivity.
Themes of these movies included: sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence, and homosexuality.
And as I posted before some actresses wore see through clothing at some point in the movie.
The last of the pre codes are shot in 1933, as the code was adopted in 1930 and it took the Catholic church to get it fully enforced by 1934 production schedules.
The Code:
1.No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2.Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
3.Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.
Specific restrictions were spelled out as "Particular Applications" of these principles:
Nudity and suggestive dances were prohibited.
The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
The depiction of illegal drug use was forbidden, as well as the use of liquor, "when not required by the plot or for proper characterization."
Methods of crime (e.g. safe-cracking, arson, smuggling) were not to be explicitly presented.
References to alleged "sex perversion" (such as homosexuality) and venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth.
The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive.
Murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail.
"Revenge in modern times" was not to be justified.
The sanctity of marriage and the home had to be upheld.
"Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing."
Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as sometimes necessary to the plot, could not be explicit or justified and were not supposed to be presented as an attractive option.
Portrayals of miscegenation were forbidden.
"Scenes of Passion" were not to be introduced when not essential to the plot.
"Excessive and lustful kissing" was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might "stimulate the lower and baser element."
The flag of the United States was to be treated respectfully, and the people and history of other nations were to be presented "fairly."
"Vulgarity", defined as "low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects" must be "subject to the dictates of good taste."
Capital punishment, "third-degree methods", cruelty to children and animals, prostitution and surgical operations were to be handled with similar sensitivity.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 4:51 pm to tigger1
Here is the list of pre codes for 1929 alone:
Alibi
Applause
The Awful Truth
Betrayal
Big Time
The Black Watch
Blackmail
The Broadway Melody
Bulldog Drummond
The Canary Murder Case
Careers
Close Harmony
The Cock-Eyed World
The Cocoanuts
Condemned
Coquette
Dance Hall
The Desert Song
Devil-May-Care
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Flying Fleet
Footlights and Fools
The Four Feathers
The Godless Girl
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Glorifying the American Girl
The Great Gabbo
Hallelujah!
Hell's Heroes
Her Private Life
The Hole in the Wall
In Old Arizona
The Kiss
The Lady Lies
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Letter
The Locked Door
The Love Parade
Lucky Star
Madame X
Marianne
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Our Modern Maidens
The Pagan
Piccadilly
Painted Faces
Pointed Heels
The Racketeer
Redskin
Rio Rita
The River
Sally
Salute
Street Girl
The Saturday Night Kid
Seven Footprints to Satan
The Single Standard
The Squall
Sunny Side Up
Their Own Desire
This Thing Called Love
Thunderbolt
The Trespasser
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Untamed
The Valiant
The Virginian
Voice of the City
Where East Is East
The Wild Party
The Wolf Song
before these talkies the line was being pushed all the time until many went over the line by 1922 and Hays was called in and his early rules did nothing to stop the push for more depth in the movies, rather than the black and white cardboard characters movies of the time.
Alibi
Applause
The Awful Truth
Betrayal
Big Time
The Black Watch
Blackmail
The Broadway Melody
Bulldog Drummond
The Canary Murder Case
Careers
Close Harmony
The Cock-Eyed World
The Cocoanuts
Condemned
Coquette
Dance Hall
The Desert Song
Devil-May-Care
Diary of a Lost Girl
The Flying Fleet
Footlights and Fools
The Four Feathers
The Godless Girl
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Glorifying the American Girl
The Great Gabbo
Hallelujah!
Hell's Heroes
Her Private Life
The Hole in the Wall
In Old Arizona
The Kiss
The Lady Lies
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Letter
The Locked Door
The Love Parade
Lucky Star
Madame X
Marianne
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Our Modern Maidens
The Pagan
Piccadilly
Painted Faces
Pointed Heels
The Racketeer
Redskin
Rio Rita
The River
Sally
Salute
Street Girl
The Saturday Night Kid
Seven Footprints to Satan
The Single Standard
The Squall
Sunny Side Up
Their Own Desire
This Thing Called Love
Thunderbolt
The Trespasser
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Untamed
The Valiant
The Virginian
Voice of the City
Where East Is East
The Wild Party
The Wolf Song
before these talkies the line was being pushed all the time until many went over the line by 1922 and Hays was called in and his early rules did nothing to stop the push for more depth in the movies, rather than the black and white cardboard characters movies of the time.
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