Precode

adj, verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To code in advance
Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of pre-Code. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
  2. 2
    Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968. not-comparable

    "The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining."

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"The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining."

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