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Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (usually labeled, albeit inaccurately after 1934, as the “Hays Code”) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers. As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence and homosexuality.

A teenage boy in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945. Photo taken by Nina Leen.

Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931) dir. Clarence Brown

what's everyone's big three?

mines sag sun, leo moon, aries rising

Florence Lawrence was born on January 2, 1886 #botd

Ann Dvorak in Love is a Racket, I love leg fetishism in old movies so much! It feels so quaint!

GET TO KNOW ME MEME [3/10 movies]

I never had any friends later on like the ones I did when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Stand By Me (1986) | dir. Rob Reiner

i just have to make it through the next few or tens or hundreds or thousands of weeks. until i'm dead

They should invent a brain that lets you sleep