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Hays OfficeFilm regulation body in the USA 1922-45. Officially known as the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, it was created by the major film companies to improve the industry's image and provide internal regulation, including a strict moral code. The office was headed by Will H Hays (1879-1954). A Production Code, listing all the subjects forbidden to films, was begun 1930 and lasted until 1966, when it was replaced by a ratings 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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