Hays Code A Look Back at Hollywood's Moral Guardian

The Motion Picture Production Code—commonly known as the Hays Code—arrived in 1930. Co-written by a Catholic priest and the Catholic ... The Pre-Code Films: Hays Code Censorship and the Ever-Changing Hollywood (Classics of 1930-34) [Cook, Sophie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying ... The Hays Code, written by a Jesuit priest and Catholic publisher, was designed as a code regulating the moral content of feature films. The Production Codes were written in response to plans for the American government to censor films and impact censorship laws on cinema. During the Hays Code, all cinematic portrayals of sexuality were censored, and sexual activity by both male and female characters was controlled ... The Hays Production Code would be the dominate standard for Hollywood for the next couple of decades, leading to the creation of many classics between 1934 & ... 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 1934 Motion Picture Production Code, commonly known as the Hays Code, is just one story of people, places, organizations and events that have shaped Los ... 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 ... My family started Universal Studios, and I make videos about their work and legacy. The Hays Code was a set of motion picture censorship ...