Cracking the Code Hollywood's Censorship Secrets

Betty Boop & the Hays Code The Hays Code of 1934 was the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines. It was first published in ... In pre-Code Hollywood, there were no guidelines around decency to the horror of religious organizations until the Hays Code was implemented. The Hays Code was a set of guidelines, self-imposed by Hollywood studios, regulating the moral content of films produced from 1934 to 1968. 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 ... 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 ... Hays (Garden. City, N.Y., 1955), 439-42. Histories of the Production Code vary on its authorship. See Paul W. Facey, The Legion of Decency: A Sociolog- ical ... 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 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code. Administration Files collection documents forty years of self-regulation. Some people concluded that the Hays Code, a self-enforced set of Christian-conservative moral standards that practically dictated what could or ... The Hays Code was created to answer the moral outrage by church groups, politicians, and conservative social organizations to numerous pre-code ...