As more people got their hands on early film cameras, movies quickly went from snapshots of someone sneezing to workers clocking out to full-blown narratives exploring life, love, and the human ...

Almost every film lover knows about the infamous Hays Code. Known officially as the Motion Picture Production Code, the Hays Code was a set of guidelines meant to censor inappropriate or morally ...

The pre-Code era of Hollywood filmmaking ran from 1930 to 1934. During these years, Hollywood films contained increasing levels of violence, sexuality, drug use, and morally ambiguous protagonists.

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

This week in puzzling online discourse, a subset of Gen Z is looking wistfully back on the era of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a voluntary (well, technically) set ...

Eerie 1 (1951) (Avon, 1951) Condition: GD/VG. Reprints a story from the 1947 edition of Eerie #1. Top right corner missing from front cover. Overstreet 2021 GD 2.0 value = $148; VG 4.0 value = $296.