Hollywood in the Last Days of the Production Code 1956-1971
With TV as the new enemy, Hollywood tried getting audiences back to downtown theaters with color, wide screens, and challenging subjects. They made movies with adult themes that were missing in TV: adultery, alcoholism, pregnancy, homosexuality, poverty.
Hollywood studios faces great challenges when confronted by the new enemy, home TV viewing. Hollywood attempted many new technologies and techniques to draw audiences back to downtown, back to movie theaters. More color, wider screens, and more challenging subjects. Things the TV networks couldn't deliver. Even though the Hayes code was still in effect during most of the 60s, writers, directors, and producers responded by making movies that featured more adult stories and subjects. Sure, these films are racy, but also occasionally angry, depressing, and horrifying. We'll take a look at some of these movies. We'll identify what aspects of these films challenged the Hayes codes. Themes like adultery, alcoholism, pregnancy, homosexuality, poverty, that were banned from TV and missing from films made 10 or 15 years earlier.
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