The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth
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What Is the Pre-Code Era?
The pre-code era basically starts to end at the end of 1933 when Hayes is like, look, nobody listens to me. And so he hires a guy named Joseph Breen, who's another Catholic. The movies are very chased by our contemporary standards. But for the time, there were a lot of ways in which they were pushing the boundaries often implicitly but sometimes very blatantly and transparently.
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