In Part I of their series on Hollywood History, Scott and Dave take you through the Production Code and its influence on not just Cinema but the rest of American culture.
Will Hays, Joseph Breen, and their enablers worked tirelessly to make sure movies didn’t reflect reality, and in this podcast we give you the background on how it all happened, as well as the fallout we’re still dealing with today.
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