Dec 31 2008
Cracking the Code, Part 6
Fortunately for the modern observer’s analysis, the Production Code was abolished in 1966, due to numerous factors. The combination of graphic television news, an onslaught of foreign films, and new freedoms within the mediums of print and theatre spelled the demise of the Hay’s Code long before it was officially dismissed.
It only remains to juxtapose the effects of cinema in the Code era with the impact it made in the pre- and post-Code periods up to this point.
The first section of the Code deals with the subject of “Crimes Against the Law,” which was vitally important to address in the face of cop-and-robber movies and the like.
