Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

Old movies are old movies, but pre-Code movies are something else — old and new, vintage and yet strangely and refreshingly modern. Pre-Code festivals used to be an annual staple in San Francisco, but ...

KPBS film critic Beth Accomando will be Procope presenting a film series on PRI code Hollywood this year. Digital gym cinema to provide a definition of what this era was all about. She speaks with ...