production code

production code (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Production Code
   • 2012, Barbara Mennel, Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     When in 1934 an agreement among the major studios in Hollywood to a system of self-censorship – the production code – went into effect, it formalised the verdict that homosexuality could not be represented in acts or words on the screen.