The Hays Code Hollywood's Attempt at Self-Regulation

10. The Gang's All Here. Sometimes the things the Production Office would overlook were pretty baffling. This film is a perfect example. The Code included a wide range of restrictions on items like nudity, obscenities, ridicule of religion, and “lustful kissing.” Evil characters ... The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped and stifled in many ways American cinema for over three decades. The Hays Code is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. 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 ... "Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing." Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as ... 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 ... The purpose of the 1930 Hays Code was to establish a voluntary self-censoring system for the production of movies and to improve the image of Hollywood. 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 ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration Files collection documents forty years of self-regulation and censorship in ...