#production code

[thursdaymurderbub]

Excerpt from a 1972 interview with Joan Blondell done on the set of Banyon (1972-1973). Taken from Conversations with Classic Film Stars: interviews from Hollywood's golden era (2016) by James Bawden and Ron Miller.

[tippytopoftrees]

Thou Shalt Not,

photograph created by Whitey Schafer (1902/3–1951) in 1940 to protest the Hays Code.

[mexcine]

Swipe File 22: "Movie Dos and Don'ts"

The Production Code Administration's new movie content restrictions were parodied by Hollywood photographer A.L "Whitey" Schafer in his famous "Thou Shalt Not" (various cited as 1934 or 1940 -- it also appeared in "Life" magazine October 28, 1946). An unidentified artist recreated this for the cover of "American Detective Magazine" (Australia, 1952), and the cover of Thomas Doherty's 1999 book "Pre-Code Hollywood" re-used the original image.

[academicfever]

42/100 days of productivity!

Beautiful morning my loves … let’s make today even better

Log:15.1.25

🎧my sea_iu

#pc setup

#journal+ mental health check

#class 2P

#outline Chp 2

#matlab session

#textbook session 2P

#take a walk

[k-wame]

best summary of this film ive ever read

[alexa-santi-author]

Since folks have seen me go off about racial censorship of classic Hollywood movies, let’s look at a writer/director who successfully went against that censorship multiple times: Samuel Fuller.

Short version: the way he got around censorship was by being a fully independent filmmaker in the days when that wasn’t really a thing. He didn’t have to submit his scripts to the Production Code office because he didn’t work for a studio. He worked for himself.

But it’s also notable that Fuller only started directing after World War 2 ended, which was the beginning of the end of the studio system and their lock on American films. The Paramount decision that declared that movie studios could no longer own movie theaters that would show only that studio’s films meant that a market opened up for post-war European films and independent filmmakers like Fuller.

The Crimson Kimono has a lot of problems to modern eyes, but at the time, it was a pretty big deal that a film had an interracial romance where the couple were actually played by people of different races and not two white actors with one in extra makeup.

James Shigeta & Victoria Shaw in The Crimson Kimono (1959), dir. Samuel Fuller

[anoiximera]

Wip of a set of pieces I'm working on slowly. Dunno when I'll have them colored but the lineart is pretty so I wanted to share hehe

[fallofthecelestial]

Okay. Since we're going over all the takes on Mr. X at this point.. What if his powers really don't have a backside. What if (the state of) his normal life is the backside.

What if his normal life is akin to that of heroes where he has to pretend to be something he's not and follow rules that the people who control his life came up with to further their own goals. What if he can only be free of other people's beliefs and expectations when he's a hero.

What if in reality he truly is like everyone else. The other heroes. The ordinary people. All those who work themselves to the bone, who are tired and overworked and sick of all the exploitation...

What if when he's in the form of the number one hero.. when he becomes the most sought after product on the hero market..

Is when he gains the freedom to truly be himself

[thursdaymurderbub]

Silver Screen magazine, April 1938

[rookflower]

really like hollyleaf as a character but am super uninterested in any take on her that views her obsession with the warrior code as a virtue and not as a flaw

[severalowls]

The greatest cure to imposter syndrome is having to interact with a coworker who is even worse at everything but definitely gets paid more.

The only problem is then you replace imposter syndrome with becoming some kind of joker.

[lambmotifz]

“turns out i have a thematic which is tight relationships between brothers with an unstated homoerotic subtext” - eric kripke

“boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. it was that.” - bob singer (on sam and dean’s breakup in 1.11 scarecrow)

“i sometimes say it’s the epic love story of sam and dean” - sera gamble

they really said spn is the wincest show

[glowettee]

✧ some girls collect books like other people collect apologies ✧ | aria montgomery

you know that girl who always looks like she’s coming from a bookstore or a heartbreak? that’s aria montgomery. oversized sweater slipping off one shoulder. spiral notebook clutched like a secret. vintage ring that doesn’t match but still looks intentional. she’s the reason why half of us still romanticize rainy days and weird thrift store finds.

aria isn’t the dark academia girl who quotes aristotle or does latin translations for fun, she’s the one who writes poems in her margins during math class, the one who shows up to school wearing velvet in september, and the one who knows how to turn every trauma into a metaphor.

i wanted to talk about what makes her the ✧ dark dream girl ✧ of rosewood, and how you can borrow that energy for your own dark academia-coded study + lifestyle routine.

(i tried a very poetic approach to this post, if you wanna see more, go follow my substack)

✧ the emotional foundation: aestheticism as survival

aria doesn’t just like pretty things, she needs them. for girls like her, beauty is a shield. it’s the perfume you spray before crying. it’s the eyeliner you perfect after your trust is broken. aria uses art and literature the way some people use therapists: she confesses to her canvas, she bleeds into her journal.

she was never just “quirky.” she was trying to survive in the most beautiful way possible.

you don’t do it to impress anyone. you do it to stay soft in a world that keeps trying to roughen you up.

✧ your aria-inspired academic lifestyle

studying isn’t boring when it’s a little bit haunted.

dark academia isn’t only about reading old books. it’s about how you live when you believe everything could be meaningful.

♡ your study rituals:

light a candle before you open your books (yes, even during the day. bonus points if it’s sandalwood or “old library” scented)

romanticize writing essays by doing them in cursive first, or outlining in your favorite pen

create a spotify playlist with dark academia music

keep a book in your bag at all times. your goal is to look like you just escaped a literature class from 1885.

♡ your tools:

a notebook that feels like it’s holding secrets (leather-bound, moleskine, or something you DIY with pressed flowers and tape)

highlighters in muted tones: deep burgundy, antique rose, sage

sticky notes with lines from poems you don’t fully understand, but feel anyway

your favorite pen that feels like it glides across paper when you write something dramatic

✧ the aria montgomery wardrobe theory

aria never dressed for trends, she dressed like a plot twist. litterally. you don’t have to copy her exact looks (feather earrings are very 2012 and that’s okay), but you can channel her ✧ vibe ✧ with this updated formula i created:

🖤 wear textures that feel like stories:

velvet, lace, knit, wool, mesh

things that look like they belong in an old attic or a cursed boarding school

🖤 color palette:

oxblood, ink black, ash grey, cream, plum, antique gold

the kind of colors that make you look like you know how to read tarot and annotate your syllabus

🖤 silhouette:

long coats, ankle boots, chunky scarves, asymmetrical hemlines

anything that gives “i’m on my way to find answers in the rain”

🖤 accessories:

rings on every other finger

book earrings, tiny lockets, vintage glasses

always wear something slightly off, a detail that makes people pause

✧ soft-spoken girls with sharp minds

aria’s quietness isn’t passive. it’s calculated. she observes everything. she remembers everything. and she hides her strength in softness.

when you adopt her mindset, your silence becomes strategy. your softness becomes unsettling. be the mystery and the solution. be the girl who reads you like a book, but won’t even dog-ear the page.

✧ making your life a literary masterpiece

aria montgomery’s entire vibe is living like she’s the main character in a half-sad, half-beautiful novel.

🕯 journal like it’s your only witness

don’t just “take notes.” write diary entries. write how your teacher’s voice sounded like static today. how you saw a bird and thought about someone who doesn’t call anymore.

don’t just do to-do lists. write manifestos.

“today i will be quiet but terrifying. i will get an A and feel nothing. i will smile like i know something they don’t.”

🎞 document everything

take pictures of your desk at golden hour

scan your coffee cup stains and call it “visual poetry”

make your notes beautiful. pretend someone will find them 100 years from now.

🖋 write poetry like it’s a weapon

start with a feeling. disguise it with metaphors.

every time someone makes you feel like nothing, write something beautiful to prove them wrong.

✧ mindy’s personal tips on ariafying your life

💌 keep one book that feels like your personality. reread it every year. 📚 annotate your textbooks like they’re love letters. 🖼 print out art that makes you feel too much and tape it near your desk. 🎭 give every outfit a backstory: “this is what i wore to break someone’s heart in an old bookstore.” 🕯 whisper poetry in the mirror when you don’t feel pretty.

✧ parting thoughts

aria montgomery was never just “the artsy girl.” she was an entire ✧ emotional atmosphere ✧. and if you’ve ever felt too sensitive, too strange, too poetic for this world... you’re not alone. you’re pll-coded. you’re aria-coded. and that makes you dangerous in the most beautiful way.

you don’t have to collect apologies. you can collect books. collect outfits. collect love letters to yourself. and most importantly, collect proof that you felt everything and survived anyway.

i hope you all love this poetic approach, an interest of mine is to study poetry and i wanted to give a more poetic writing style for this, i love this pll series so much and i hope you all do too.

[academicfever]

45/100 days of productivity!

Morning loves <3 It’s the weekend … I’m taking a slow day…

🎧kai

to-do:

Morning yoga

Morning reading session

Laundry and meds

Run few errands

Class recap 2P

mental health check _journal

Call home

Read before bed

[inkz123]

Error prolly waits a week after Valentine's day so he can get the chocolate bundles on discount.

He goes to the stores to check prices before Valentine's because he HATES how crowded it gets nearing the day.

He computes how much he can save when he buys in bulk when he does go and buy em.

And the cashiers and store clerks swooning over him cuz they think he looks so handsome but also sad and jelly cuz hes probably choosing which chocolate to buy for his "honey"

but really hes planning to buy em all for himself haha

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking about how Oliver said that 816 was his favourite episode of the season a while back and how things got shifted a lot since he said that - they added in invisible (which iirc was shot with production code 817??) and changed around the plot to remove the Eddie arc from the contagion arc and Bobbys death so they were two separate concepts (because they no longer worked together in tandem - which is very true!).

If they’d left it all how it was - then 817 would’ve actually been episode 816 - which means it’s this episode that is Oliver’s favourite. That makes so much sense compared with what we saw air as 816 - we got so much good Buck stuff for Oliver to really dig into and Oliver always loves episodes where he gets to act with Gavin, have good scenes with Ryan and have Buckley-diaz family scenes!