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HAYS, Will. Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. 30 items, including published pamphlets and limited-distribution mimeographed sheets. All ca. 1922-1935, though most mid-1920's. Includes: Rufus Steele, "7 News Stories About the Movies" 18pp, 35pp; "The Motion Picture Message", 1925, 7pp; "The Novel and the Screen", 1928, 14pp; "What the Motion Picture Means to Me", 8pp 1927; "The Open Door", 1929, 7pp; "The Church, the Child and the Motion Picture", 1929, 7pp; "The Motion Picture, America's History Preserved on Screen". "The Motion Picture, the New Teacher", 1929, 8pp; "The Novel and the Screen" ca. 1935, 20pp; Will Hays, "Motion Pictures and the Public". 21Pp, 1925; Carl Milliken, "Who Selects America's Movies?"; "Senator Vest Pays Tribute to the Dog in Noted Speech", ca. 1925, 6pp; Annual Report of the National Chairman of the Committee on Better Films", 12pp, ca. 1924; "Program the Saturday Morning Movie" broadside, ca. 1925, 13"x8". "The Motion Picture and the Youth of America", 4pp, ca. 1925. "Motion Picture Censorship Repeal, How the People Voted in Massachusetts in the General Election of 1922", ca. 1922. 12"x9", 9pp. Please send me a note for the full description. [++] "Founded in 1922 the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) original goal was to ensure the viability of the American film industry. In addition, the MPA established guidelines for film content which resulted in the creation of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1930. This code, also known as the Hays Code, was replaced by a voluntary film rating system in 1968, which is managed by the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA)."--Wikipedia [++] The Hays Code of 1927 (the Magna Carta of such things) including the following "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls": Pointed profanity by either title or lip this includes the words God, Lord, Jesus, Christ (unless they be used reverently in connection with proper religious ceremonies), Hell, S.O.B., damn, Gawd, and every other profane and vulgar expression however it may be spelled; 1. Any licentious or suggestive nudity in fact or in silhouette; and any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture; 2. The illegal traffic in drugs; 3. Any inference of sex perversion; 4. White slavery; 5. Miscegenation; 6. Sex hygiene and venereal diseases; 7. Scenes of actual childbirth in fact or in silhouette; 8. Children's sex organs; 9. Ridicule of the clergy; 10. Willful offense to any nation, race or creed; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that special care be exercised in the manner in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that vulgarity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste may be emphasized: 1. The use of the Flag; 2. International Relations (avoid picturizing in an unfavorable light another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent people and citizenry); 3. Arson; 4. The use of firearms; 5. Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, et cetera (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these may have upon the moron); 6. Brutality and possible gruesomeness; 7. Technique of committing murder by whatever method; 8. Methods of smuggling; 9. Third-Degree methods; 10. Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime; 11. Sympathy for criminals; 12. Attitude toward public characters and institutions; 13. Sedition; 14. Apparent cruelty to children and animals; 15. Branding of people or animals; 16. The sale of women, or of a woman selling her virtue; 17. Rape or attempted rape; 18. First-night scenes; 19. Man and woman in bed together; 20. Deliberate seduction of girls; 21. The institution of marriage; 22. Surgical operations; 23. The use of drugs; 24. Titles or scenes having to do with law enforcement or law-enforcing officers; 25. Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a "heavy". Seller Inventory # ABE-1650146818740
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