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It was this day in 1930 that the Motion Picture Production Code (AKA the Hays Code) went into effect, imposing a set of strict guidelines on Hollywood that are laughable today ("Revenge shall not ...

as no film would be released without a Production Code Administration seal. By the end of 1934, newspapers around the country celebrated Hollywood’s new direction. The Motion Picture Herald ...

Because the film depicted 43 murders, the Motion Picture Production Code refused to give its seal of approval to Scarface. The film was released anyway, with a few changes and the title Scarface ...

Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed violence and sexual content in movies — even animated movies.