Navigating the Labyrinth of Hollywood Censorship The Hayes Code

The film The Gang's All Here features Carmen Miranda and a chorus line doing the suggestive banana dance with five-foot bananas--banned abroad, but embraced in ... 1 Provisions of the Code · 2 History. 2.1 Before the Production Code; 2.2 1930 to 1934: The start of the Hays Code; 2.3 Enforcement; 2.4 The ... The Hays Code came into effect, directors were no longer free, but then they became decidedly creative in telling what they needed to tell. The Motion Picture Production Code, excerpted below, spelled out in detail what was and was not permissible in the nation's most popular form of entertainment. The Motion Picture Production Code—commonly known as the Hays Code—arrived in 1930. Co-written by a Catholic priest and the Catholic ... The Hays Code, or Motion Picture Production Code, restricted the American cinema industry in the mid-twentieth century. The Motion Picture ... March 31, 1930 is the day the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (the precursor organization to our current MPAA) officially adopted the Hays ... it was eighty years ago today—15 July 1934—that the Production Code Administration, one of Hollywood's most successful attempts to police itself ... For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing. 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 ...