Elliot Shank
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe #MotionPictureProductionCode, aka #HaysCode, was put in place on #ThisDayInHistory in 1930. It was enforced aggressively from 1934, applying strict censorship to the use of violence, crime, sex, & religion in US films. In 1968 it was replaced by the #MPAA film rating system.
JdeBPIn all of these years no-one on #IMDB has spotted the Hays Code circumventing appearance of the Eiffel Tower, with the camera tracking downwards, in place of the 'Parcheesi' in Paris When It Sizzles.
The fact that William Holden's 'whisky' is very clearly plain water, not even coloured for effect, is probably a combination of suspension of disbelief and (if one knows about Holden) too obvious to be worth mentioning.
It's a shame that none of the stars could pronounce 'Gillette' correctly (as either English or French) and that 1960s audiences weren't given the native name of the #ArcDeTriomphe.
#HaysCode #ParisWhenItSizzles #EiffelTower #AudreyHepburn #USMovies #Paris
theseoldqueersIn this episode, Megan talks about The Pansy Craze - a period of increased LGBT visibility in popular culture from the late 1920s until the mid-1930s, that came to an end following the Great Depression, The Hays Code and the rise of World War Two.
During the "craze," drag queens, drag kings, masculine women and femme queer men — known as "pansy performers" — experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in US cities such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Check us out across the web!
images:
1 front page of 'Breveties'
2 illustration of "pansy" stealing a sailor from a "working girl" - Breveties
3 #GladysBentley
4 #JeanMalin out of drag
5 Jean Malin in 'Arizona to Broadway'
6 #KarylNorman
7 Karyl Norman
8 #RaeBourbon
9 Rae Bourbon out of drag
10 #WilliamDorseySwann
#pansycraze #thepansycraze #hayscode #thehayscode #queerpodcast #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #theseoldqueers
During the "craze," drag queens, drag kings, masculine women and femme queer men — known as "pansy performers" — experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in US cities such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Check us out across the web!
images:
1 front page of 'Breveties'
2 illustration of "pansy" stealing a sailor from a "working girl" - Breveties
3 #GladysBentley
4 #JeanMalin out of drag
5 Jean Malin in 'Arizona to Broadway'
6 #KarylNorman
7 Karyl Norman
8 #RaeBourbon
9 Rae Bourbon out of drag
10 #WilliamDorseySwann
#pansycraze #thepansycraze #hayscode #thehayscode #queerpodcast #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #theseoldqueers
11SprongingProngs11:) No option to spare the lesbian romantic interest is #homophobic actually lolnojk. Our lives are already full of so much IRL death and violence that's it's basically almost never fun in media.
Stolz questline in #fallout76 I'm looking directly at you.
This is #TerraandWillow from #buffythevampireslayer
(i'm basically saying goodbye to this game and moving to FLOSS arena/rpg projects)
greenpepper22Hey all, #comedon night is happening this Thursday at 7pm PT
This week we are going way back to a #PreCode comedy, Hook, Line, & Sinker(1930)! Precode movies are films from after audio was added and before the #HaysCode became enforced, so movie makers were more free to explore different topics.
Links will be posted Thursday
Anyone and everyone is welcome join! Hate speech is not
#WatchPartyAlert
#comedy
#movies
#CineMastodon
#FilmMastodon
#PreCodeMovies
#WheelerAndWoolsey
#DorothyLee
Ga2soWalk of Fame Adventures: Design For Living (1933) and Will H. Hays
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/design-for-living-1.jpg
I’m sure Hays loved this movie.
A woman falls in love with two men, so they all live together? Where man has sex with a laundry woman so he can have a clean shirt for a date with someone else? Pretty wild for 1933.
Will Hays had nothing to do with this move. He never starred in a movie. He never wrote, directed, or produced a movie. He was a politician and chairman of the Republican National Committee before becoming the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. He’s best remembered for the Hays Code, a set of moral rules that films were required to follow. I thought there could be no better way to celebrate him than to watch a film that gleefully breaks a bunch of those rules.
Lucky for us, the Hays Code was abandoned, and no Republicans ever try to censor any one any more.
This fake poster is based on the incredibly clever idea that the opposite of “living” is “dead.”
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/08/04/walk-of-fame-adventures-design-for-living-1933-and-will-h-hays/
#haysCode #hollywood #movies #photoshop #walkOfFame
Sim Barr"Boys Will Be Boys"
Wonder Bar (1934) starring Al Jolson, May Francis + Dolores Del Rio was a pre-code film released just before the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (known as the Hays Code) were adaped more rigorously. This scene in particular is often sited as an example of the 'Pansy Craze' - a term coined in 1994 - referring to a period in the late 1920s + early 30s when homosexual visibility in stage + film was increasing.
#boyswillbeboys #aljolson #wonderbar #pansycraze #hayscode #censorship #visibility #precode #precodefilm #film #kino #cinema #filmclip
The New Yorker [Unofficial]Rediscovering a Great Film Critic of Hollywood’s Golden Age
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseInternet Archive Blog: The Public Domain and the Rise of the Hays Code. “Films entering the public domain will soon face a significant shift. In 2030, films governed by the Hays Code will start to enter the public domain. The Hays Code was a set of self-imposed industry censorship guidelines enforced from 1934 to 1968 by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), under […]
