On the Hays Code

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From a documentary about people from Indiana and their influence on Hollywood. One of those people, Will Hays, influenced Hollywood censorship for decades. I wrote, recorded and mixed this piece.

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English

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Middle Aged (35-54)

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North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)

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in the twenties, Hollywood had seen a number of scandals, including at least one high profile murder and a high profile rape case. Movies did not have a standard. So when several risque movies came out that contained nudity and racy dialogue, Hayes was hired to get a handle on. It was just a fascinating topic. Yes, Jonathan, I will both miss you. Now see here, Jerry, how do you like this little poem? Did you think it's rather 50? And then, just to kind of see how it changed the late fifties and sixties into the current races brain system we had today But for, you know, 38 years? His code is 36. Don't and be careful. XYZ What basically regulated Hollywood. Some of the 36 don't included profanity, which included swears using God's name in vain, nudity, drugs, white slavery, sex between races, VD, childbirth, nudity of Children, ridicule of the clergy, intentionally offending any nation and care had to be put on the subjects of using the flag, guns, arson, crime and brutality, honeymoon scenes, seduction, surgery, law enforcement and lustful kissing. It's like they were to meet one of them, says yes, yet quick. Don't let me get away on the other. I will tell you what it wants. Does what will happen to it? I don't know myself. The code essentially went into effect in 1934 and gone with the Wind paid a fine for the famous scene, but the Code World Thievy was a big influence on that. If you watch films starting from the mid fifties, the language changed. I thought we got formalities a long time ago. I think maybe we'd better pick him up again, he said when he got out, the first thing he was gonna do it was to kick that ***** from here to Kingdom come. We also looked for certain undergarment of Mrs Manion Point exactly what the undergarment just heard. Panday's Your Honor. You always were pending. Eventually, nude scenes crept in, and eventually the M P A. A rating system was established in 1968 after a night of the living dead took it a bit far. But the impact of Will Hayes in the Hayes code spends two decades and hundreds of movies. That's a huge impact, and he was from Sullivan, Indiana,