When we're talking about "pre-Code," we're talking about a period roughly from the middle of 1929 until July 1, 1934, in which American movies were pretty much uncensored.

The term pre-Code refers to a small window of time, approximately five years, between Hollywood's widespread adoption of sound and the coming of censorship in the form of the strict Production ...

As a result, pre-Code films inevitably have a “look Ma, no hands” exuberance, the zest of a newly liberated art form that felt anything was fair game on screen. If you could dream it up, you ...

When the BFI announced its Pre-Code season 'Hollywood Babylon', it took me a while to understand what that actually meant. I had heard the term Pre-Code before but had assumed it meant gangster films.

Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until 1934, when the censorious Hays Code toned down and cleaned up Hollywood movies, are supposedly racier, saucier, sexier and more violent than their ...

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 ...

Pre-Code horror films are among the most chilling and thought-provoking in the genre, and many have stood the test of time and become certified American classics. 10 'The Most Dangerous Game' (1932) ...

Starting today, he’s offering “Essential Pre-Code” — what he terms the “creme de la creme” of the era — 50 films, all in 35mm prints, and all filled with the sort of sex, drugs and ...

A screenshot from 'London in 1927,' a video made with archival footage shot by British cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene, using a new colored-film technique known as 'Biocolour' ...

The pre-Code era of Hollywood filmmaking ran from 1930 to 1934. During these years, Hollywood films contained increasing levels of violence, sexuality, drug use, and morally ambiguous protagonists ...