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It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays's leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began ...
Sinclair also gave Hays $75,000 as an outright gift to the committee. At the time, Hays was attempting to pay off the 1920 Republican campaign debt. Hays later approached a number of wealthy men and told them that if they would contribute to pay down the committee's debt, he would reimburse them for their contributions with Liberty Bonds.
From the early days of the association, Hays spoke out against public censorship, [7] [8] and the MPPDA worked to raise support from the general public for the film industry's efforts against such censorship. [9] Large portions of the public opposed censorship, but also decried the lack of morals in movies. [10]
Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry after the introduction of sound in the early 1920s [1] and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934.
City and state censorship ordinances are nearly as old as the movies themselves, and such ordinances banning the public exhibition of "immoral" films proliferated. Will Hays, the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and namesake of the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code, aka, the "Hays Code."
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.
William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Will H. Hays (1879–1954), RNC chair, postmaster general, Hays Code film industry self-censorship advocate; William Hercules Hays (1820–1880), U.S. federal judge; William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist; William Torrance Hays (1837–1875), Ontario ...
Breen was a journalist and an "influential layperson" in the Catholic community. [5] Breen worked for Will H. Hays as a "troubleshooter" as early as 1931. [6]In 1933, the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency was founded, and began to rate films independently, putting pressure on the industry.