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Filmmakers were facing the possibility that many states and cities would adopt their own codes of censorship, necessitating a multiplicity of versions of films made for national distribution. Self-censorship was deemed a preferable outcome. In 1927, Hays suggested to studio executives that they form a committee to discuss film censorship.
William Harrison Hays Sr. (/ h eɪ z /; November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was an American politician, and member of the Republican Party.As chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918 to 1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Harding.
The association was headed by Will H. Hays, a well-connected Republican lawyer who had previously been United States Postmaster General; he derailed attempts to institute federal censorship over the movies. In 1927, Hays compiled a list of subjects, culled from his experience with the various US censorship boards, which he felt Hollywood ...
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."
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]
From the 1930s up until 1970, the Motion Picture Production Code, or the Hays Code, prohibited any explicit depictions of homosexuality. This led to a rise in “queer-coded” characters, where ...
Throughout history, censorship has never succeeded. It has never stopped a single idea or a movement. It has a perfect failure rate. Ideas, like water, have a way of finding their way out in time.
Gabriel Hays. January 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM ... a billion to The Democratic Party's get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020 and participating in what conservatives called censorship on social media for ...