Before 1934, Hollywood was doing whatever it wanted, and politicians, religious groups, and censorship boards were having fits.
The Motion Picture Production Code was established to take the immorality out of movies and make Hollywood pictures safe.
See four films that show what movies were like before the Code on Thursdays at 7 p.m.:
Before 1934, Hollywood was doing whatever it wanted, and politicians, religious groups, and censorship boards were having fits.
The Motion Picture Production Code was established to take the immorality out of movies and make Hollywood pictures safe.
See four films that show what movies were like before the Code on Thursdays at 7 p.m.:
Before 1934, Hollywood was doing whatever it wanted, and politicians, religious groups, and censorship boards were having fits.
The Motion Picture Production Code was established to take the immorality out of movies and make Hollywood pictures safe.
See four films that show what movies were like before the Code on Thursdays at 7 p.m.:
At our June meeting, we will discuss A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman and the Birth of Modern China, 1949, by Kevin Peraino.
We will be discussing Joshua Zeitz's Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity and the Women Who Made America Modern in May.
Lenin on the Train, by Catherine Merridale, will be the subject of this month's discussion.
This month we will be talking about Robert E. Lee: A Penguin Life, by Roy Blount, Jr.
See five spectacular international films when the 26th Annual Providence Latin American Film Festival comes to Warwick Library on September 28 & 29.
On Friday, September 28 at 7 p.m., see the 2018 Chile drama El tipo que se quebró las uñas (por querer agarrar un corazón dibujado en el pavement) or The Guy Who Broke His Fingernails (Trying to Grab a Heart Drawn on the Pavement). A failing marriage seems to get better after the husband starts having an affair.
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy, by Evan Thomas, will be the topic of our discussion this month.
Our selection for December is Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by Daniel K. Richter.
