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Definitive Pre-Code

My attempt at a comprehensive list of feature-length and short sound films produced in America between 1930 and July 1934 (plus others included on pre-code.com, and Wikipedia's and Letterboxd's other Pre-Code film lists).

I am open to suggestions to add or delete entries.

  • The Fresh Lobster
  • The Sky: A Film Lesson in "Nature Study"
  • Gus Van and Joe Schenck
  • Character Studies
  • A Naughty Nurse
  • A Breeze from the South
  • Melodious Moments
  • Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
  • Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra
  • Lights of New York
  • Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano
  • The Swell Head
  • Sharps and Flats
  • Dick Rich and His Synco-Symphonists
  • Joseph E. Howard: America's Popular Composer
  • The Sex Life of the Polyp
  • When East Meets West
  • Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Hollywood Bound
  • Songs and Impressions
  • A Breath of Broadway
  • The Terror
  • I Thank You
  • Sharp Tools
  • A Cycle of Songs
  • The Beau Brummels
  • Marion Harris: Songbird of Jazz
  • Walt Roesner and the Capitolians
  • Leo Beers: World Renowned Whistling Songster
  • Melody of Love
  • Joseph Regan: Irish American Tenor
  • Dinner Time
  • Chaz Chase, The Unique Comedian
  • Song Impressions
  • The Home Towners
  • Interference
  • The Five Locust Sisters
  • Gus Van and Joe Schenck
  • The Ponce Sisters
  • On Trial
  • The Wild Westerner
  • Napoleon's Barber
  • The Home Girl
  • The Spellbinder
  • Conquest
  • In Old Arizona
  • s White
  • Traffic Regulations
  • 'Neath Western Skies
  • The Witch's Cat
  • Hearts in Dixie
  • Innocents of Paris
  • The Love Doctor
  • My Bag o' Tricks
  • After the Round-Up
  • The Doctor's Secret
  • Al Lyons and His Four Horsemen
  • Frank Whitman: That Surprising Fiddler
  • The Country Gentlemen
  • The Sky Hawk
  • Dooley's the Name
  • The Broadway Melody
  • Melancholy Dame
  • Stark Mad
  • The Old Barn
  • Hen Fruit
  • Furnace Trouble
  • In Holland
  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Lesson No. 1
  • The Canary Murder Case
  • Ask Dad
  • Mickey's Explorers
  • Friendship
  • The Ghost Talks
  • The Belle of Samoa
  • All Faces West
  • Hold 'Em Ozzie
  • Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats
  • Pigskin Troubles
  • Speakeasy
  • The Dummy
  • Ship Ahoy
  • Some Pumpkins
  • A Musicale Melange
  • Roy Fox, the Whispering Cornetist, and His Orchestra
  • The Barn Dance
  • Music Hath Harms
  • Ruth Etting in Favorite Melodies
  • His College Chums
  • The Letter
  • The Opry House
  • Green's Twentieth Century Faydettes
  • Guido Deiro: World's Foremost Piano-Accordionist
  • Syncopation
  • Queen of the Night Clubs
  • The Great Power
  • Stewed, Fried and Boiled
  • Coquette