production code

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Production Code.

   When in 1934 an agreement among the major studios in Hollywood to a system of self-censorship – the production code – went into effect, it formalised the verdict that homosexuality could not be represented in acts or words on the screen.

   2012, Barbara Mennel, Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 26

alternative production code

1. abbreviationellipsishistoricaluncountablebroadcastingEllipsis of Motion Picture Production Code.

   From 1930 to 1956 the Production Code's sixth regulation on matters of “sex” boldly declared: “Miscegenation (sex relationship between the white and black races) is forbidden.”

   2005, Susan Courtney, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 103

   Synonyms: PC, Hays Code