Production Code

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Production Code (uncountable)

1. (film, historical, 1930–1968) Ellipsis of Motion Picture Production Code.

   Synonyms: PC, Hays Code

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

     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.”