precode
To code in advance
Adjective
- Alternative spelling of pre-Code.
- 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. - 2007 April 22, Terrence Rafferty, “The Infinite Variety of the Lady Stanwyck”,...
Verb
- To code in advance