precode

adj 2verb 1

Definitions

adj

1

Alternative spelling of pre-Code.

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.

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

verb

1

To code in advance

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