The Hays Code Censorship and the Shaping of American Cinema

My family started Universal Studios, and I make videos about their work and legacy. The Hays Code was a set of motion picture censorship ... Hays. The code was created to avoid a code of external censorship being imposed on movie production given the contemporary social climate. The ... 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 ... Formally known as the Motion Picture Production Code, but more popularly remembered as The Hays Code, named after William H. Hays president of the Motion ... The film The Gang's All Here features Carmen Miranda and a chorus line doing the suggestive banana dance with five-foot bananas--banned abroad, but embraced in ... 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. I would add to what Mr. Hoptman has said, which is quite true. The Hays office enforced a certain degree of censorship on Hollywood and ... A Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures. Formulated and formally adopted by The Association of Motion Picture Producers, ... 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 ... The Motion Picture Production Code. December, 1956. Pages 1-16.