Navigating the Hays Code Hollywood's Moral Compass in the Golden Age

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 ... 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 ... 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 ... And so it was that beginning 15 July 1934, every film produced by a MPPDA member would have to be approved by the PCA before it could be ... The Production Code Administration (PCA) was established by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) in 1934 to enforce the Motion ... The Hays Code was a set of rules that enforced censorship on the American cinema in response to the increase of public complaints about the lewd content of ... The Motion Picture Production Code, or the Hays Code, governed US film content from 1934 to 1968, limiting topics and dictating traditional ... The Hays Code was based on three principles. All of the regulations fell under one of these categories, and where there was not a specific rule, these three ... The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the ... The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by ...