TV VOID

Here’s some films of the dancers of the 1920′s.  They range from classy to sleasy, from sultry to sick.  Is it Fatima or Fat Emma?  You’ll be able to tell which ones worked in classy night clubs and which ones were relegated to Joes Bar.  These came from the Prelinger Archives collection at the Internet Archive.  By todays standards they are pretty tame, but these films contain nudity, so Parental Guidance is expected.

I don’t have dates for these films, but it is almost certain that they are “pre-code” works.  Pre-Code films were created before the Motion Picture Production Code or Hays Code – censorship guidelines – took effect on 1 July 1934 in the United States.  The original code was written by a Jesuit priest, Father Daniel A. Lord, and officially adopted in 1930. The code was effectively ignored because many found such censorship prudish, due to the libertine social attitudes of the 1920s and early 1930s. This was a period in which the Victorian era was looked upon as being naive and backward and was constantly ridiculed as such.