The Hays Code Shaping Cinema's Golden Age

The new edition of this seminal work takes the story of the Production Code and motion picture censorship into the present, including the ... Hollywood's Motion Picture Production Code, popularly referred to as the Hays Code, loomed over films in every stage of movie production ... A Code to Govern the Making of Motion and Talking Pictures: the Reasons Supporting It and the Resolution for Uniform Interpretation. 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 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 based on three principles. All of the regulations fell under one of these categories, and where there was not a specific rule, these three ... Some Like it Hot The Hays Code ... Many credit Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot with effectually ending the era of the Hays Code. The Hays Code, ... Some people concluded that the Hays Code, a self-enforced set of Christian-conservative moral standards that practically dictated what could or ... The Motion Picture Production Code. December, 1956. Pages 1-16. 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 ...