The Hays Code A Landmark in Film History

The Hays Code was a set of industry guidelines to ensure films were appropriate for general audiences. It was in place between 1934 to 1968. Excerpts from Maltby, “The Production Code and the Hays Office,” Grand Design 37-72. Their version of events adheres to the requirements of a familiar early ... Hays Code (1930) · Adultery, sometimes necessary plot material, must not be explicitly treated, or justified, or presented attractively. · Scenes of Passion. in Los Angeles contain no "definitive" copy of the Code as adopted in 1930 and enforced thereafter (the files for Freaks [1932] and King Kong [1933] have. The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped—and in many ways stifled—American cinema for over three decades before it was revised in ... What is the American equivalent? The MPAA. Production Code Administration (PCA). -A set of self-regulating guidelines that dictated American film content ... The Hays Code was a set of guidelines designed to regulate the content of motion pictures produced in America between 1934 and 1968. The Hays Code came into effect, directors were no longer free, but then they became decidedly creative in telling what they needed to tell. The Hays Code, or Motion Picture Production Code, restricted the American cinema industry in the mid-twentieth century. The Motion Picture ... The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s.