The second, from 1934 to 1968, saw the industry policed by the Motion Picture Production Code, colloquially known as the Hays Code. During the third period Hays’ ideas evolved into the MPAA ...

The era coincided with the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code, a series of restrictions on what movies were and were not allowed to show. How could creativity thrive in an ...

What some people may not be aware of is that there was an earlier attempt at Hollywood self-regulation in the form of the Motion Picture Production Code, popularly known as the Hays Code (named ...

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 ...