The Hays Code Hollywood's War on Immorality

... Code' and 'post-Code.' The 'Code' in question is the Motion Picture Production Code, better known as the 'Hays Code,' a reference to Motion ... 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 Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped and stifled in many ways American cinema for over three decades. The Production Codes were written in response to plans for the American government to censor films and impact censorship laws on cinema. 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 is a set of rules and guidelines that Hollywood films were made to follow between the early 1930s and late 1960s. 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 created to answer the moral outrage by church groups, politicians, and conservative social organizations to numerous pre-code ... Hays (Garden. City, N.Y., 1955), 439-42. Histories of the Production Code vary on its authorship. See Paul W. Facey, The Legion of Decency: A Sociolog- ical ... The Hays Code controlled the freedom of Hollywood filmmakers from the 1930s to the 1960s. It changed cinema by dictating the film topics and imagery they could ...