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Find out the about the moralistic and highly-specific (and exploitable) rules and guidelines that decided what could and couldn’t be in American movies from 1934 to 1968.
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Read the Hays Code:
1930 version: https://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/theory/1930code.pdf
1956 version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Motion_Picture_Production_Code%2C_December_1956.pdf
Interestingly, the Motion Picture Production Code was a case of self-censorship. Studios imposed it on themselves to stop outraged audiences from demanding the government to create their own outside censorship.
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