Almost every film lover knows about the infamous Hays Code. Known officially as the Motion Picture Production Code, the Hays Code was a set of guidelines meant to censor inappropriate or morally ...

The Motion Picture Production Code, more colloquially known as the Hays Code, became fully enforced in mid-1934. A set of guidelines to regulate and censor indecent or inappropriate content in motion ...

Elliot Lavine, programmer of pre-Code films at the Castro Theatre (every Wednesday through March 30), was raised in Detroit, moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s with the thought of becoming a filmmaker ...

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 (as ...