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The Hays Code: Keeping Sex Off the Screen (But Not Out of Our Dirty-Minded Little Hearts) for More Than Three Decades.

I was asked recently to give a brief overview of the Hays Code, to which I have referred repeatedly in some of my previous entries on this blog. The Motion Picture Production Code, known in Hollywood as the Hays Code (named after its creator, Will H. Hays), preceded the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)…

March 26, 2010 in hays code, the art of filmmaking.

Required viewing.

This is why there will never be a full-screen edition of a widescreen movie on my shelf. And now there shouldn’t be any on yours, either.

January 31, 2010 in featurettes, tcm, the art of filmmaking.

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