ALAN writes:

Thank you for posting portions of the Motion Picture Production Code. What a difference nine decades have made in the lowering of standards.  Observe the moral-philosophical frame of mind reflected in motion pictures from the 1930s-’40s, and then compare it with the palpable hatred of moral standards depicted in today’s motion pictures.  Two things could not be more different, yet both are called entertainment. The word applies properly to the former.  But for the latter, the right word is Junk.

We are fortunate indeed that old movies are still available in which we can see concrete expressions of the good advice reflected in that Code: Uplifting stories brought to life by actors like Ronald Colman, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, and Fred Astaire, and actresses like Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Loretta Young, and Irene Dunne.  What they created represents a moral-philosophical-esthetic world of entertainment as different from today’s degradation-called-entertainment as day from night.  That was my world.  I cannot stand anything in or about the indescribable junk that is now called entertainment.  Friends and acquaintances are shocked when I tell them this.  They cannot imagine that anyone could be so untrendy and uncool as not to appreciate any motion pictures made since the 1960s (and very few in that decade).

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