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Hays Office |
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Hays Officeformally Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of AmericaU.S. organization that promulgated a moral code for films. In 1922, after a number of scandals involving Hollywood personalities, film industry leaders formed the organization to counteract the threat of government censorship and to create favourable publicity for the industry. Under Will H. Hays (1879–1954), a politically active lawyer, it initiated a blacklist, inserted morals clauses into actors' contracts, and in 1930 developed a Production Code that detailed what was morally acceptable on the screen. The code was supplanted in 1966 by a voluntary rating system. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| For Museum, 1998, Holleman acted like a latter-day Hays Office, eliminating all sex scenes from a gay porn film and showing the remaining footage as a weird ballet of brooding glances and gestures. To head off the boycott and the threat of nationwide censorship, the studios gave the Hays Office a new production code, written by a Catholic priest, and new power to enforce it. Fields and Mae West had more battles with the Hays office, Hollywood's old draconian censorship board, than anyone else. |
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