Tag Archives: Motion Picture Production Code

Happy Birthday, Robert Osborne – Live from the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival!

Posted on May 3, 2013 by willmckinley

Every year I travel to Hollywood for the TCM Classic Film Festival and I think to myself, “This will be the year the magic finally wears off.” And then Robert Osborne walks in, and it feels like Moses has come … Continue reading →

Posted in TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival | Tagged 80 Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, Ben mankiewicz, Cher, digital conversion, Friday Night Spotlight, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, IMAX, Moses, Motion Picture Production Code, press conference, Robert Osborne, Roosevelt Hotel, Rose Theater, TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival, Turner Classic Movies | 22 Comments

Screening Report: The 1933 Pre-Code Festival

Posted on May 1, 2013 by willmckinley

On a recent Friday night, I struggled to find an empty seat at Film Forum, the Downtown Manhattan movie mecca where I spend most of my free time and discretionary dollars. Sold out shows are not uncommon at the cinema, … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Film Forum, Pre-Code Film, Screening Report | Tagged 1933, BABY FACE, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Boop, Busby Berkeley, Casey LaLonde, Charles McCabe, Columbia, CONVENTION CITY, DANCING LADY, Film Forum, Film Forum Junior, First National, Fleischer Studios, Greg Ford, Hal Wallis, Jack Warner, Joan Crawford, John Gallagher, KING KONG, MGM, Motion Picture Production Code, Paramount Pictures, Pre-Code Film, RKO, THE DONOVAN AFFAIR, The Little Rascals, THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE, Twentieth Century, United Artists, Warner Bros, WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD, William Wellman | 9 Comments

Screening Report: CARTOON CUT-UPS of 1933 at Film Forum

Posted on February 25, 2013 by willmckinley

The cinematic celebration of 1933 – “Hollywood’s naughtiest, bawdiest year!” – continues at New York City’s Film Forum on Monday, February 25 with Cartoon Cut-ups of 1933, a collection of rare animated shorts released by RKO, Columbia, MGM, Warner Bros., … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Film Forum, Pre-Code Film, Screening Report | Tagged Film Forum, FOOTLIGHT PARADE, Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, Fleischer Studios, Motion Picture Production Code, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, 1933, Marie Dressler, Walter Lantz, Leon Schlesinger, Ub Iwerks, Charles Mintz, Pat Powers, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, William Nolan, Pre-Code films, Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Felix the Cat, Superman, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Mr. Magoo, Flip the Frog, Cubby Bear, Scrappy, Willie Whopper, the Little King, Official Films, Blackhawk Films, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Al Michaels, SODA SQUIRT, CAVE MAN, SITTIN’ ON A BACKYARD FENCE, FIVE AND DIME, Jimmy Durante, CANDY TOWN, Van Beuren, WEDDING BELLS, Krazy Kat, George Herriman, Mickey Mouse, HAPPY HOBOES, CHRISTMAS NIGHT, PALS, OPENING NIGHT, CUBBY’S WORLD FLIGHT, THE WORD’S AFFAIR | 5 Comments

GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by willmckinley

The year is 1931. Three undressed women catfight over the lover they share – wrestling in his bed, tearing at each other’s skimpy negligees. One of them is Louise Brooks, pansexual star of some of the sultriest silent films ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged "Raymond Griffith", 1931, A STAR IS BORN, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy House, Charles Winniger, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, Eleanor Gutchrlein, Frank Fay, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, G.W. Pabst, GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN, Hays Code, Joan Blondell, Joseph Jackson, Karla Gutchrlein, Laura La Plante, Louise Brooks, Margaret Livingston, Michael Curtiz, Motion Picture Production Code, Norman Maine, PANDORA’S BOX, Pre-Code Film, Safe in Hell, Sisters G, The Code, The Devil Was Sick, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Yola d’Avril | 5 Comments

She Works Hard For the Money: The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection on DVD from TCM

Posted on December 10, 2012 by willmckinley

Sex sells, the old saying goes. It also employs, or at least it did in movies made before enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code began in 1934. In the The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection, a five-film DVD set from … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, TCM | Tagged ARIZONA, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection, Forbidden Hollywood, Great Depresson, Hays Office, Jean Harlow, Jo Swerling, John Wayne, Joseph Breen, Laura La Plante, Lionel Barrymore, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Mayo Methot, Motion Picture Production Code, Pat O’Brien, Pre-Code Film, Regis Toomey, Robert Riskin, SHOPWORN, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, TEN CENTS A DANCE, THREE WISE GIRLS, VIRTUE, Will Hays | 19 Comments

THE AGE OF CONSENT (1932) from Warner Archive: Pre-Code Passion At Its Most Lustful

Posted on November 4, 2012 by willmckinley

People in old movies don’t seem to know how to kiss. Without a doubt, there are plenty of iconic lip locks from the films of the 1930s and ‘40s, often accompanied by lush orchestrations that infer burning passion. But characters … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged 1932, Aileen Pringle, Arline Judge, David O. Selznick, Dorothy Wilson, Eric Linden, Franchot Tone, Gregory La Cava, John Halliday, Motion Picture Production Code, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, Reginald Barlow, Richard Cromwell, RKO, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, Sylvia Sidney, THE AGE OF CONSENT, Warner Archive Collection, Will Hays | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: Motion Picture Production Code

Happy Birthday, Robert Osborne – Live from the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival!

Screening Report: The 1933 Pre-Code Festival

Screening Report: CARTOON CUT-UPS of 1933 at Film Forum

GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!

She Works Hard For the Money: The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection on DVD from TCM

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