ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of production cultures in Hollywood between the 1930s and 1960s, looking at how story ideas were found and developed. The chapter also provides a brief overview of the role of the Production Code Administration (PCA) in Hollywood, considering existing histories. It then examines the broad range of academic work on the PCA, the ways it has been studied, and the ways in which the unmade has been left unacknowledged. The latter is a particular concern of the chapter. It examines how the ‘unproduced’ category of the PCA records has been overlooked in current literature, leaving a gap in present knowledge of that era of American film history, and considers why this might be the case.
