Pre-Code

But on the occasion of Film Forum's "Essential Pre-Code," a 50-film survey, beginning Friday, of depression-era Hollywood's racy talking pictures, it is worth remembering that during this period the Empire State was the film-censorship capital of the nation.

The Storm Before the Calm Bruce Bennett 2011

Criterion has released the gorgeous, sparkingly sexy and so far ahead-of-its time and still is, Design for Living on DVD and Blu-ray, Ernst Lubitsch's sublime, soulful and very, very sexy Pre-Code masterpiece.

Kim Morgan: It Takes Three: Design for Living Kim Morgan 2011

"Pre-Screwball Comedy" is a sequel of sorts to Spectacle's "Lost Pre-Code Hollywood," which surveyed the dramatic offerings of the years before 1934.

On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles Anthony Paletta 2011

Many silent and early talking "Pre-Code" films are filled with nudity, sex, violence, and all kinds of content that, you're right, Peter, most people think was invented in the 1960s.

Ahistorical fiction? Peter Rozovsky 2010

Pre-Code Warner Bros. in particular was always keen to insert scenes of women undressing and bathing, even when the script had to be contorted to accommodate such risque scenes.

Ahistorical fiction? Peter Rozovsky 2010

Maybe i'm getting a little "John Berger/Joseph Campbell" with all this - deconstructing Pre-Code Crime comics or Italian zombie movies or whatever it may be, for what they tell us about their time and the people that lived in them.

Archive 2009-03-01 hyperdave 2009

Here's the first of many overdue Halloween 2008 posts, a nice collection of Pre-Code horror strips reproduced from line-art from various places, hither and yon..

Archive 2009-03-01 hyperdave 2009

"The Supernatural" by "Reynoso", "Shock" which I'm sure is ripped panel by panel from a Pre-Code story, maybe an E.C. tale? and "He Rose From The Grave", both by what looks like Fass staple Oscar Fraga.

Fass times 5! hyperdave 2009

Here's the first of many overdue Halloween 2008 posts, a nice collection of Pre-Code horror strips reproduced from line-art from various places, hither and yon..

Mr Hyper's got some splainin' to do! hyperdave 2009

Maybe i'm getting a little "John Berger/Joseph Campbell" with all this - deconstructing Pre-Code Crime comics or Italian zombie movies or whatever it may be, for what they tell us about their time and the people that lived in them.

Mr Hyper's got some splainin' to do! hyperdave 2009