Hollywood's Morality Police A Comprehensive Study of the Hayes Code

Movies from 1930 to 1967 were governed by a Production Code. This web site reproduces it and gives examples of where the Code prevented proposed stories and ... PRODUCTION CODE ADMINISTRATION (HAYS OFFICE)In the early 1920s notorious sex scandals, as well as racy movie content and advertising, raised strong cries ... It was the first attempt to introduce film censorship in the United States, and was fully enforced beginning July 1st, 1934. It remained in effect until the ... The history of film censorship in the United States. The documentary covers the pre-code era, to the 1934 introduction of the Hays Code. The Hays Production Code would be the dominate standard for Hollywood for the next couple of decades, leading to the creation of many classics between 1934 & ... The Code included a wide range of restrictions on items like nudity, obscenities, ridicule of religion, and “lustful kissing.” Evil characters ... For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing. The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by ... Production Code (Hays Code)The Hays Code, also called the Production Code, was a self-imposed system of regulation that explicitly and implicitly affected ... Let's just get this out of the way: the Hays Code was awful. It was sexist, racist, homophobic nonsense that set film back decades and ...