The Hayes Code A Historic Examination of Film Regulation

In pre-Code Hollywood, there were no guidelines around decency to the horror of religious organizations until the Hays Code was implemented. The Motion Picture Production Code was released in 1930. This was also called the Hays Code, named after its creator William H. Hays. Hays was the former ... The Motion Picture Production Code—commonly known as the Hays Code—arrived in 1930. Co-written by a Catholic priest and the Catholic ... When Hollywood came to be viewed as a place of the dammed and sinful, Will Hayes, a republican and Presbyterian, non-smoker, non-drinker, ... The code aims to sanitize movies -- no nudity, suggestive dancing, miscegenation, ridicule of religion, illegal drug use, or objectionable language. "Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing." Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as ... “The code prohibited profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape. It had rules around the use of ... The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code). If motion pictures present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most ... The Code's rules were puritanical and severely limiting. The "Don'ts" stated that sex, drugs, and nudity were simply not allowed. The Hays Code was a system of self-censorship that Hollywood subjected itself to from 1934 to 1968, in an attempt to stave off legislative ...