LIFE

Thirties shocker still affecting

Life, Plalai Faifa, Published on 27/07/2012

» When the Motion Picture Production Code, a draconian set of moral censorship guidelines, came crashing down on Hollywood studios in 1934 it put an end to one of the most adventurous eras in American film-making, extinguishing a spark that was not to be revived until the early 1970s.