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At a time when Hollywood studios were muzzled by the Production Code, a wave of independent filmmakers played cat-and-mouse with the censors with a series of scandalous melodramas on explicitly forbidden topics. To ring in the New Year, take a brisk stroll through a cinematic back alley with film historian and restorationist Bret Wood as he exposes the taboo-breaking, pseudo-educational exploitation films of the 1930s and ‘40s.