The Hays Code A Force for Good or Evil in Cinema?

The Code included a wide range of restrictions on items like nudity, obscenities, ridicule of religion, and “lustful kissing.” Evil characters ... The code aims to sanitize movies -- no nudity, suggestive dancing, miscegenation, ridicule of religion, illegal drug use, or objectionable language. The Hays Code, officially known as the Motion Picture Production Code, was a set of industry moral guidelines that governed the production of films in the ... A look at the Hays Code. The censorship code of the golden age of Hollywood, and how the Studio System of that era made it possible. 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 ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration Files collection documents forty years of self-regulation and censorship in ... The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. 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 ... Hays Office was an American organization, headed by Will H. Hays, that promulgated a moral code for films. In 1922, after a number of ... We probably see the US film industry attempt to self regulate like their British counterparts. The Hays code was itself a method of getting the ...