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pre-Code en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + code.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1934 and 1968.
    • The Sign of the Cross, in certain senses the ultimate pre-Code movie, can still have a queasying ^([sic]) effect on viewers with its arena brutality, and its effect on 1933 audiences was that much stronger 2005, Richard Barrios, Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall:

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pre-Code en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + code.

Meanings

  1. A pre-Code movie, especially one that was subsequently banned under the Hays Code.
    • The good news is that most of the pre-Codes mentioned in these pages are either available on video or can be seen on television. 2014 July 15, Mick LaSalle, Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, Macmillan, →ISBN:
    • The most brutal pre-Codes take the viewer to Hell, and only sometimes back, just as the noir films did after the war a one-way ticket to oblivion, destruction, and death. 2013 June 27, Andre Spicer, Helen Hanson, A Companion to Film Noir, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
    • I was surprised that there even were young people at the festival at all and even more surprised by the fact that they liked Pre-Codes more than any other genre - Pre-Codes are the earliest "classic" films you can watch. 2024 November 8, Simone O. Elias, Old Films, Young Eyes: A Teenage Take on Hollywood's Golden Age, McFarland, →ISBN, page 113:

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