Slowly asked, "Is anyone here?" as he walked along the dark and deserted street. When he heard a loud sound he turned around quickly and tried again "Ready?" Met only by silence, she resumed her pace, almost running along the dirt road. Her nerves had just begun to calm when she heard "WRRRREEENNNNNNRRRRRRR" as a chainsaw started up behind her. As she ran, she started looking over her shoulder, hoping that whoever it was wouldn't catch her. With her lack of concentration she tripped on her high heels and threw the plants into the dirt, giving the killer a chance to get to her. He slowly lowered the chainsaw and began cutting --CUT -- This is a common plot used in horror films today. Movies have changed over the years. They were different five years ago, fifty years ago and even almost a century ago. Technologies make unthinkable things possible. They allowed us to sink "the unsinkable ship" again. They allowed us to see dinosaurs in all their brutal glory. We saw imaginary creatures, mentioned only in stories brought to life. Movies have come so far since the 1920s and 1930s. They have developed ideals, rules and even standards; but where did they start? Did movies just fall from the sky? Have they just been born? No, they slowly, quietly began to move into a new era, the era we now call “Pre-Code Hollywood.” The idea of ​​Hollywood, before it was Hollywood as we know it, seems foreign. However it existed and was known as "Pre-Code". Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era of the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Hays Code censorship guidelines, which went into effect on June 13, 1934 (Association of Motion Picture Producers 1934). Durin...... middle of paper ......d by William Wyler. Performed by Audrey Hepburn. 1953.Sabrina. Directed by Billy Wilder. Performed by Audrey Hepburn. 1954.Lasky, Betty. The greatest Little Major of All. Santa Monica: Roundtable, 1989. Miller, Frank. Hollywood censored. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1994. Nichols, John. ““Countering Censorship: Edgar Dale and the Film Appreciation Movement (Critical Essay).”.” Cinema Journal. Fall 2006. Rabinovitz, Laura. For the sake of pleasure; Women, film and culture at the turn of the century in Chicago. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Reed, Elanine Walls. “‘A Very Unusual [sic] Practice’: Race Mixing and the Motion Picture Industry in the Hays Era.” West Virginia Univesity Philological papers 50, 2003: 42-53.Southerland, Harold P. ""'Love for Sale'- sex and the Second American Revolution"." Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, 2008: 49-77.