Production code
"Production code" in a Sentence (2 examples)
From 1930 to 1956 the Production Code's sixth regulation on matters of “sex” boldly declared: “Miscegenation (sex relationship between the white and black races) is forbidden.”
When in 1934 an agreement among the major studios in Hollywood to a system of self-censorship – the production code – went into effect, it formalised the verdict that homosexuality could not be represented in acts or words on the screen.