The Hays Code A Catalyst for Hollywood's Transformation

The Production Code spelled out specific restrictions on language and behavior, particularly sex and crime -- two sure-fire box office draws. It prohibited ... 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 ... The Hays Code, written by a Jesuit priest and Catholic publisher, was designed as a code regulating the moral content of feature films. Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the ... The Hays Code, officially known as the Motion Picture Production Code, was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content in films. 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 ... The Hays Code, and its enforcement, easily explains the differences in these films, but it elucidates a lot more about the shape of the 20th ... The Hays Code, officially known as the Motion Picture Production Code, aimed to maintain a level of morality and decency in films. Hays. The code was created to avoid a code of external censorship being imposed on movie production given the contemporary social climate. The ... They also instituted a set of editorial “don'ts” and “be carefuls” for film producers in 1927. However, the MPPDA and Hays are best remembered ...