The Hays Code A Moral Compass for the Silver Screen

Full documentation from a selection of 500 film titles in the Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration records. The moral code that governed mid-20th century American film-making. 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. The Hays Code was created to answer the moral outrage by church groups, politicians, and conservative social organizations to numerous pre-code ... The Hays Code, or Motion Picture Production Code, restricted the American cinema industry in the mid-twentieth century. The Motion Picture ... The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped and stifled in many ways American cinema for over three decades. PRODUCTION CODE ADMINISTRATION (HAYS OFFICE)In the early 1920s notorious sex scandals, as well as racy movie content and advertising, raised strong cries ... The Hays Code spelled out acceptable and unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States. The Code ... 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 ...