Decoding the Hays Code Censorship and Morality in Filmmaking

Formally known as the Motion Picture Production Code, but more popularly remembered as The Hays Code, named after William H. Hays president of the Motion ... The Motion Picture Production Code. December, 1956. Pages 1-16. 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. 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 ... 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 ... The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped—and in many ways stifled—American cinema for over three decades before it was revised in ... From the beginnings of motion pictures in the 1890s, some civic authorities have felt they needed to be regulated to protect innocent young minds and ... The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. The Code's rules were puritanical and severely limiting. The "Don'ts" stated that sex, drugs, and nudity were simply not allowed.