Sara S
09-05-2014, 09:36 AM
from DU:
Sin alert! Sin alert! Hit the DVR!
Just a heads-up: starting at 6 AM EST on Fri. Sept. 5 (tomorrow), Turner Classic Movies is running a non-stop marathon of "pre-Code" movies.
"Pre-code" means movies made before 1934, when the movie Production Code went into effect.
It's hard to believe, for those of us who watch those old movies with grown-ass adult married couples sleeping in twin beds. But before the Code, Hollywood tackled such subjects as abortion, infidelity, dope, labor unrest, the fallout of the Great Depression...and LOADS of sex.
Does this have anything to do with religion/atheism? Why sure! That damn production code was run (and partly written) by a moralizing uber-Catholic peckerhead named Joseph Breen. The Bill Donahue of his day, Breen was ably assisted by the Catholic Legion of Decency, an organization made up originally of Catholic bishops. Later changed to "National" Legion of Decency, to be more ecumenical and shit.
Breen's original Code organization later morphed into that far-sighted, benevolent organization we all know and love today - the MPAA.
TCM is also running a documentary "Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood." Here's a link to the TCM article, it sounds interesting:
https://games.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=968558%7C955227&name=Thou-Shalt-Not-Sex-Sin-and-Censorship-in-Pre-Code-Hollywood
Sin alert! Sin alert! Hit the DVR!
Just a heads-up: starting at 6 AM EST on Fri. Sept. 5 (tomorrow), Turner Classic Movies is running a non-stop marathon of "pre-Code" movies.
"Pre-code" means movies made before 1934, when the movie Production Code went into effect.
It's hard to believe, for those of us who watch those old movies with grown-ass adult married couples sleeping in twin beds. But before the Code, Hollywood tackled such subjects as abortion, infidelity, dope, labor unrest, the fallout of the Great Depression...and LOADS of sex.
Does this have anything to do with religion/atheism? Why sure! That damn production code was run (and partly written) by a moralizing uber-Catholic peckerhead named Joseph Breen. The Bill Donahue of his day, Breen was ably assisted by the Catholic Legion of Decency, an organization made up originally of Catholic bishops. Later changed to "National" Legion of Decency, to be more ecumenical and shit.
Breen's original Code organization later morphed into that far-sighted, benevolent organization we all know and love today - the MPAA.
TCM is also running a documentary "Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood." Here's a link to the TCM article, it sounds interesting:
https://games.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=968558%7C955227&name=Thou-Shalt-Not-Sex-Sin-and-Censorship-in-Pre-Code-Hollywood