Loose Ankles: 1930 talking movie

I was doing a meditation on impermanance today by watching a movie that likely everyone is dead who was in it by watching a 1930s movie. I found it fascinating because of this and how different the culture was in 1930 than say 1935 or 1940 or 1945. There is a whole lot of innocence that was lost during the mid 1930s by the Great Depression and the 1940s during World War II. There was still the innocence of the first cars and first airplanes and only World War I that found its way into this movie. Also, the movie code that was instituted to make movies more prim and proper hadn't been instituted yet so movies were both less innocent but simultaneously more puritanical after the movie code of the 1930s set in.

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So, this movie was made without the "motion picture code that started to be enforced in about 1934 with interesting results. So, you see a young man with a schooner "Tatooed on his chest taking a bath while talking to other men and then later being undressed by Loretta Young which you likely wouldn't see much from 1934 to 1968 in films as a result of the code being enforced. No one is completely naked at any point but much is implied in the behavior and words that you didn't see much after 1934 until 1968.

I DVRed it on the TCM (Turner Classic Movie) network.